The federal government began rationing supplies immediately after Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, was bombed in 1941. But it wasn't until the following year that it began limiting access to consumer goods. That was done to solve problems with supply — ships carrying coffee to the U.S. from the Caribbean were being sunk by German U-boats, for instance — as well as demand: Much of the nation's meat was being diverted to service members.
As one poster from the era explained it, people over 12 were allotted 2½ pounds of beef, veal, lamb and pork a week. Kids under 6 got three-quarters of a pound. During the six months that coffee was rationed, the allotment was a meager 1 pound for five weeks for everyone over 15. "There was a real sense of 'we're all in this together,'" she said."There wasn't the same resentment as now, with people getting into fights at Target over toilet paper."Farm Security Administration / Library of Congress
A Gallup survey at the time found that 89 percent of American shoppers preferred rationing to an unstable supply of goods, Guise said. Just 25 percent thought it was OK to shop sometimes on the black market.
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Interesting. They didn’t storm state capitals with semi-automatic weapons?
KINGS1973 Not a 'dive in meat production' a dive in 'meat processing'
I bet they was some strict households! In fact, I know they was.
Are we so blind as to what the long term implications are of this for us as the MIDDLE CLASS PEOPLE of America....I am sure there will be a price to pay!
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There should be dick rationing as well
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Is this a scare tactic or trying to create a shortage or are you really just sharing news with us?
And hopefully it'll reduce our consumption and manufacture of processed shite. Err where's the problem lol
Don’t worry, Bill Gates has invested in Monsanto GM grain, that the seeds can’t be saved and used the following year! What could possibly go wrong? To stop seeds from being used, is like killing food weeds in their tracks! Well done Billy Boy!
Humans can survive w out meat 🙄
All the milk and vegetables they’re dumping. And euthanizing chickens and hogs. Mismanagement. It’s terrible. People going hungry and in food lines.
Good and it'll reduce the heart attacks and the farts :) We weren't designed to eat like this. Meat was a luxury to the family. Here's to a healthier world.
All for a fake virus.
Time to eat the rich?
Americans can live quite nicely without meat.
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Don’t worry folks, I have enough meat to go around ;)