Food Conservation
Background: Would you give up meat on Mondays and wheat on Wednesdays to support your country's war efforts? That's what the U.S. Food Administrator Herbert Hoover encouraged during World War I. The United States needed to send food to Europe for the war effort, and he did not want the government to impose rationing.
So instead, the U.S. government encouraged limiting meat and wheat consumption through running food conservation notices in newspapers nationally. Critics called Hoover's food conservation efforts as "Hooverizing." However, they succeeded in saving enough food for American troops overseas and the country's allies after the war, preventing a famine in these countries. At the end of the war in November 1918, the food conservation program ended, and the USFA disbanded.
Picture: This picture encourages the public to stop wasting food. It emphasizes that it will help win the war and that everyone is participating in the "movement". By doing this, Americans are provoked to conserve their food rations because they feel like they are part of something bigger.
So instead, the U.S. government encouraged limiting meat and wheat consumption through running food conservation notices in newspapers nationally. Critics called Hoover's food conservation efforts as "Hooverizing." However, they succeeded in saving enough food for American troops overseas and the country's allies after the war, preventing a famine in these countries. At the end of the war in November 1918, the food conservation program ended, and the USFA disbanded.
Picture: This picture encourages the public to stop wasting food. It emphasizes that it will help win the war and that everyone is participating in the "movement". By doing this, Americans are provoked to conserve their food rations because they feel like they are part of something bigger.