Corn: Food of the Nation

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Lew, as a follow-up to your blog from last week on “The Government Sweetener,” I’d like to point out that it has been a long time since corn was declared “the food of the nation.” This is a U.S. Food Administration propaganda poster from 1918:


In fact, this was also a time before Big Agra had its grip on food policy and healthy fats were demonized by the food and medical establishment. Here’s a U.S. Food Administration poster from 1917.

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