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title: '"Food fights for freedom!!!"'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/us-owi-alston-food-fights-for-freedom-1943/
description: A farmer in overalls and a straw hat holds a large basket of vegetables, with bombers overhead and a farm behind him.
section: Collection
---

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[!["Food fights for freedom!!!", 1943 US cartoon: A farmer in overalls and a straw hat holds a large basket of vegetables](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/us-owi-alston-food-fights-for-freedom-1943.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/us-owi-alston-food-fights-for-freedom-1943.jpg)

# "Food fights for freedom!!!"

A farmer in overalls and a straw hat holds a large basket of vegetables, with bombers overhead and a farm behind him; the text reads 'Produce and Conserve' and 'Share and Play Square'. The tell is plain folks and glittering generalities: an ordinary farmer and the word 'freedom' frame food production as a war duty.

## Propaganda techniques used in this cartoon

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

## Text on the object

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

```
PRODUCE AND CONSERVE

SHARE AND PLAY SQUARE

"FOOD FIGHTS FOR FREEDOM!!!"

Alston OWI
```

[← "Equal protection for all"](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/us-owi-alston-equal-protection-for-all-1943/) ["Get into your fighting clothes - we're going after the others" (undated, c. 1942-1945, OWI) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/us-owi-alston-get-into-your-fighting-clothes-1943/)

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