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tion of economic laws, to which our national policy has and 

 will make grudging concessions. Food prices will rise, thereby 

 encouraging production and discouraging consumption. The 

 type of food which we are consuming will change and our 

 consumption of the more desired foods will decline. We shall 

 fail in our promise to feed our allies on pork loin and pow- 

 dered milk; if we feed them at all it will be largely on grains. 

 We shall see more emphasis on the production of more food, 

 and less emphasis on its quality or on the price we pay for it. 

 If food is^to win the war, it will have to be used like other 

 scarce war materials, not like the main dish of a Roman feast. 

 If food is to write the peace, it will have to write for many 

 people. The only way our food supply can be written for 

 many people is in terms of wheat, beans, and potatoes rather 

 than milk, eggs, and meat. 



The Nation Is Not Hungry 



Agitation about the food supply has been inspired by the 

 tongue and not the stomach. There has been no shortage 

 of energy food in the United States. However, if the weather- 

 man is a non-co-operator and the government continues to 

 encourage the feeding of wheat to livestock and the grinding 

 of wheat for synthetic rubber, and Lend-Lease exports of 

 wheat increase sharply, a shortage of energy foods might 

 develop. There is, and will continue to be, a shortage of meat, 

 dairy products, and other highly prized protective foods for 

 civilian consumption. 



The consumer measures the supply of food in terms of 

 whether or not he can get meat, dairy, and poultry products 

 the foods he most desires. Furthermore, the amount of 

 these foods that he would like to buy depends on his income. 

 He tends to gauge his shortage by the difference between the 

 amount of pork chops he can buy and the amount he would 

 like to buy, based on the purchasing power of his rising in- 



