Social Aspects of the Food Surplus in the United States

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Excerpt from Social Aspects of the Food Surplus in the United States: A Thesis Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in SociologyIt will be noticed that a normal average of of the primary foods are imported to the United States and this gives a key to what extent we already have become dependent for imports of foods.It is moreover, evident that our imports were steadily increasing. This is especially significant when the figures for the war period are scrutinized. In spite of attempts to curtail domestic consumption during that period, and attempts to divert imports to the western allies, the imports of primary human foods had become so important that the country was unable to check consumption. The fact that one-sixth of food had to be imported during such a crisis is important in showing to what extent we have become dependent on food produced on foreign soil. It may be of further interest to note here that roughly one-half of these imports Of primary foods consisted of one class of foods, namely sugars.Moreover, since it has been shown that exports decreased and imports have a definite upward tendency, it must also become clear that the country is increasingly losing its independence as being agriculturally self-sustaining. It is important to point out that during a war when every inducement of patriotism, economics and crowd psychology was for restriction of use of imported foods the importation continued to increase in the same ratio as in normal times.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.