waste not want not and demonstrated the proper etiquette necessary to join the ranks of the clean plate club in that era saving food was presented as part of the war effort and to do otherwise would be unpatriotic using food wisely and being aware of waste became second nature to a generation that had first hand experience with world war economic downturn and food scarcity. in both world war one and world war two the emerging might of american industrial and manufacturing power was bent toward the war effort and consequently to feeding the troops in a world where millions of starving america has become the bread basket of one of the guard full of democracy. our farmland in ranges must produce more food than ever before to supply our own meat and to help our fighting to live. pretty fair and the greatest good producing country in the world backing him up the american soldier no matter where even be in the jungle. the arctic. the desert. or in his home care cattle rightly considered himself the best bet though during the war and in the future the war born knowledge that has made him so well re