Plowed Under: Food Policy Protests and Performance in New Deal America

by Ann Folino White

During the Great Depression, with thousands on bread lines, farmers were instructed by the New Deal Agricultural Adjustment Act to produce less food in order to stabilize food prices and restore the market economy. Fruit was left to rot on trees, crops were plowed under, and millions of piglets and sows were slaughtered and discarded. Many Americans saw the government action as a senseless waste of food that left the hungry to starve, initiating...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253015405
• ISBN13: 9780253015402
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: Indiana University Press (Ips)
• Length: 314 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.2" x 9.7"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher