• Tucker, William
  

In the early 1950s, a small company named Nutrilite Products, Inc., in Buena Park, California, was making a modest income selling a vitamin supplement guaranteed to be made completely from "natural" products. The vitamins were extracted from alfalfa grown on Nutrilite's 1,000-acre farm in the San Jacinto Valley, 100 miles northeast of Los Angeles. The company was using only "organic" humus fertilizers and no chemical pesticides when, in 1953, it discovered an infestation of small, green aphids eating their way through the crop.