These breed danger: meals that are too meager, poorly prepared, low in protective foods
Make America Strong set, poster 5: a photograph of a mother serving seven children at a crowded table of plain food, under the headline 'These breed danger' and three lines naming meager, poorly prepared meals low in protective foods. The word 'danger' over a family meal is a fear-appeal; a single selected scene is used to stand for a general condition (card-stacking).
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1941
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Government (Make America Strong poster set; issuing agency not named on sheet), printed by U.S. Government Printing Office
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Warn or inform
- Themes
- Health, 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)
U.S. Government Printing Office. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1313J (NAID 514948).
Text on the object
THESE BREED DANGER meals that are too meager meals poorly prepared meals low in protective foods [imprint:] Make America Strong (set of 13 posters) . . . . . Poster No. 5 [imprint:] U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1941—O-292318
