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title: Save food, fight famine
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/save-food-fight-famine-1946/
description: Long narrow brown banner with white capital lettering reading 'Save food' and 'Fight famine'. There is no picture.
section: Collection
---

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[![Save food, fight famine, 1946 US poster: Long narrow brown banner with white capital lettering reading 'Save food' and 'Fight](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/save-food-fight-famine-1946.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/save-food-fight-famine-1946.jpg)

# Save food, fight famine

Long narrow brown banner with white capital lettering reading 'Save food' and 'Fight famine'. There is no picture. The two-word imperative pairs a household action with a larger cause, and the technique is faint: 'fight famine' is a positive-value phrase with no figures or evidence on the sheet.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/)

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
SAVE FOOD   FIGHT FAMINE
[imprint: U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 1946 O 701601]
```

[← Report over ceiling prices to the OPA](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/report-over-ceiling-prices-to-the-opa-1946/) [Seed needed: help fight famine →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/seed-needed-help-fight-famine-1946/)

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