On October 5 1947, U.S President Harry S. Truman announced the food conservation program in a radio and television address. This program was proposed by the Citizens Food Committee and was supported by every department of the federal government. The idea of the program was to help the starving countries of Western Europe after World War II by the American people pledging to waste less food, eat no meat on Tuesdays and no poultry or eggs on Thursdays...
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Administrative Circular, The President’s Food Conservation Program, October 13, 1947 (English). World Bank Group Archives exhibit series|no. 054 Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/272601467999689112