Americans! Share the meat as a wartime necessity
The military needed huge amounts of food, too, to feed soldiers, and by late 1942 food at home was running short. Grocery stores started rationing canned goods to customers to prevent hoarding. Meat was in especially short supply. The government limited the amounts shipped to grocers and restaurants and set a "voluntary ration" of two and a half pounds of red meat per adult per week. But stores often could not get even that much, and residents of some cities faced a meatless Christmas. Shoppers in San Diego crossed the border into Mexico in search of full shelves. Time magazine blamed the government's "blundering" for the shortages.
![<img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://statelibrarync.org/learnnc/sites/default/files/images/ww1645-33.jpg" width="459" height="613" alt="Americans! Share the meat as a wartime necessity" title="Americans! Share the meat as a wartime necessity" /> <img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://statelibrarync.org/learnnc/sites/default/files/images/ww1645-33.jpg" width="459" height="613" alt="Americans! Share the meat as a wartime necessity" title="Americans! Share the meat as a wartime necessity" />](https://dev.ncpedia.org/sites/default/files//styles/anchor_images/public/ww1645-33.jpg?itok=RKQZ0l-Y)
Government Printing Office. Americans! Share the meat as a wartime necessity. 1942. Print: Color. Library of Congress: Prints and Photographs Division. https://www.loc.gov/item/96507329/ (Accessed December 7, 2018)
Creative Commons BY-NC-SA
This item has a Creative Commons license for re-use. This Creative Commons BY-NC-SA license means that you may use, remix, tweak, and build upon the work for non-commerical purposes as long as you credit the original creator and as long as you license your new creation using the same license. For more information about Creative Commons licensing and a link to the license, see full details at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/.