Join the ranks - Fight food waste in the home
Fight Food Waste in the home chart no. 1: three women in profile look upward toward a drawn city and houses, under the headline Join the ranks and the rules Buy to save, Serve to save, Store to save. The tell is transfer and bandwagon: military enlistment wording and stars are applied to household food saving, with a group shown already joined.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1942
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Home Economics
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- Home front, Health
- 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)
U.S. Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Home Economics. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1151J (NAID 514746).
Text on the object
Join the ranks- FIGHT FOOD WASTE in the home • Buy to save • Serve to save • Store to save [emblem:] FOOD FOR FREEDOM FIGHT FOOD WASTE in the home BUREAU OF HOME ECONOMICS U.S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 1 [imprint:] For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, Washington, D. C., Price 25c per set of 10 charts [imprint:] U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1942-O-465386
