The job is primarily one of understanding the new food-supply situation and learning how to adjust to it. Faced with the necessity of using more of some foods and less of others, we must learn how to substitute available foods for those no longer available and how to prepare them. We must take effective action to keep ourselves informed about changing feed conditions and to increase and preserve the local food supply through such projects as victory gardening and home canning. Before launching a nutrition discussion we should understand what part food plays in the war. It is important to see that what we are doing is part of a carefully prepared national program.
Food is a munition of war and can be used to shorten the war, save lives, and build a sound peace.
The needs of our armies, our allies, our civilian population, and liberated countries must be met. There is enough food to go around if we supervise its distribution carefully. The Government has taken measures to insure everyone a fair share at a fair price through increased production, rationing, and price control. Rationing helps to relieve scarcity by distributing food fairly. Successful measures to increase the national food supply depend upon effective local programs of production and conservation.