Feed a Fighter: Eat Only What You Need, Waste Nothing, That He and His Family May Have Enough
A helmeted soldier in a muddy trench drinks from a tin cup, a rifle at his side and other figures behind him, in a dark charcoal-style lithograph. The caption ties household restraint at the table to the soldier's meal and to his family's supply, so the soldier's presence is attached to the request to eat less.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1918
- Period
- First World War
- Made by
- U.S. Food Administration
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Wilson Administration
- Leader
- Woodrow Wilson
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- War and the military, Home front
- Event
- World War I
- Regime
- Wilson administration
- Leader
- Woodrow Wilson
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives (NARA), RG 4 (U.S. Food Administration), World War I Posters (NAID 512439), retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- NARA Unrestricted; hosted by owner decision
U.S. Food Administration. National Archives and Records Administration, 4-P-136.
Text on the object
FEED a FIGHTER Eat only what you need - Waste nothing - That he and his family may have enough UNITED STATES FOOD ADMINISTRATION [illegible signature, lower right of picture]
