Don't Take More Than You Can Eat (Food Is Ammunition, Conserve It!)
Food-conservation poster: a photographed soldier in uniform scrapes a plate of leftovers into a dustbin under the headline 'Don't take more than you can eat', with an arrow reading 'Food is ammunition. Conserve it!'. Equating food with ammunition carries the weight of the military cause over to the plate, a transfer technique.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1941
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Quartermaster Replacement Training Center, Camp Lee, Va. (S/Sgts. H. M. Pascal and Paul Lefebvre; FCP-1)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Military
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Mixed
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- War and the military, Home front
- Event
- World War II
- Regime
- Roosevelt administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 44, World War II Posters, retrieved October 4, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work)
Quartermaster Replacement Training Center, Camp Lee. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-687 (NAID 514167).
Text on the object
DON'T TAKE MORE THAN YOU CAN EAT FOOD IS AMMUNITION CONSERVE IT! FCP-1 [credit:] S/SGTS. H.M. PASCAL + PAUL LEFEBVRE QMRTC, CAMP LEE, VA.
