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Nearly 130,000,000 pigs grunted on the country's farmlands, yet every city and every hamlet had already had days of little or no meat. Corn bulged high in the nation's cribs and elevators, yet some corn refineries had already curtailed operation for lack of grain...
Snapped Tom Dewey: "I would advocate the immediate execution of your pigs, which are competing with my cows for corn." He added, with a smile: "But I would advocate eating them, not plowing them under...
...Pigs v. Corn. Governors Dewey and Schricker were not exchanging mere pleasantries. As every farmer knew, the pig-corn crisis was typical of the entire U.S. food mess...
There might not be a meat shortage, if a substantial number of the nation's nearly 130,000,000 pigs were sent to market. And there would not be a corn shortage, if corn were shipped to refineries instead of being hoarded to feed to the pigs...
...Emergency Food Commission. Gist of the report: the nation must shift from a meat to a grain diet, must stretch its grain crops to the last ounce by feeding them directly to people instead of to livestock to be converted to meat. (The average hog takes seven pounds of corn to produce one pound of table pork...