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Show FOOD SCARCITY FOLLY FOLLYMillions FOLLYMillions \ Millions l\iIlhons l iIlhons of Americans aie ale me ' suffering 3uffermg fiom flom from lack of sufficient suffici sufficI- sufficIent sufficient - ent nourishing nourlslung food , and are victims v1ctIms of the pievaihng pievarling pI evaIlmg theory theoryof theoryof theoryof of the "economy economy " economy ot of SCalClty scarcity seal city , , " Charles ' W 'V V . Burkett , vice-presi vice presi VIce-preS1- preS1 vice-presi- VIcepreS1dent vicepresident vicepresident - - dent of the Fanners Faimers Fm mers ' Independence Indepe.ndence . Council of America , declared de declared de- de dedared - claredrn clared dared in III rn a lecent ecent recent 1 address . . In illustrating Illustratmg his point pomt he lie . made m.ade the too obvious suggestIOn suggestIOnthat suggestionthat suggestionthat that people can not be fed by pioducing Ploducing producing less lecs ; food than th they theyneed theyneed y yneed need . Government Goverpment Gover nnient statistics statIsbcs show that even ' in 'In m 1929 thIS thIScountry thiscountry thiscountry country fell short of a liberal diet by moie mOle more than 40 billionpounds bIllIon bIllIonpounds billionpounds pounds of food _ JV'e JVe We 'Ve Ve ' ' fell fen short of meeting meetmg even a moderate moderatediet model ate atediet atediet diet by moie mOle than 19 billion pounds . . Food puces plIces pieces were increased because of this scarcii scarcity scarciir r , due duelargely duelargely duelargely largely to the opeiation opelatlon operation of the AAA , so that the morehealthy morehealthy more morehealthy healthy foods almost vanished vamshed from the diet of millions ofpeople of ofpeople ofpeople people . . This naturally caused unenrployn unemployment , ent on farms farm.s . , , on oniranspOlt ontransport oniranspoit iranspOlt -transport transport - lines Imes , in grain elevatois elevatOls elevators , in cotton gins gms , and in the thejndustnes theindustries theindustries jndustnes industries of our cities titles . t ' The doctrine of scalcIty scarcity seal city , which paid farmeis iarmels farmers for not notgrowmg notgrowing notgrowing growmg growing food , he said , forced the United Umted States to increaseimports increase increaseImports increaseimports Imports of bacon 337 per cent ; butter 7,269 7269 , per cent ; lard 7- 7 7200 7200 7-200 7 200 , - 200 per cent ; corn 8,400 8400 , per cent , and wheat 1,658 1658 , , per cent cent.He centHe . . He also declared that during durmg nine months of last year we"brought webrought we we"brought webrought "brought brought " " from abioad abload abroad food which wh1ch should have been the pro- pro product product pro product - - duct -duct of 15 million acres of good American farm land lanel . . , . , To better the condition , of American farmers he suggests sug sug- suggests suggests - gests ending endmg regimentation regIm.entation . , regaining lost , markets , promot promot- promoting promoting promoting - - ing intelligent soil conservation , ending the "crop-limitfolly "crop crop limitfolly "crop-limit "crop crop limit crop-limit "croplimitfolly " croplimitfolly - - folly ; " , ' stopping stoPPI . g reclamation projects , , fostering farmer-own farmer own fanner-own- fanner farmer-own- farmerownedalyd farmerowned fannerowned - - edalyd ed , and a)1d a1d ) directed co-operatives co operatives - - , , lower taxes , a balanced budget bud bud- budget budget - get , and an end to government , experimenting e.perimenting eperimenting } , . . |