a
reference to the actions of the Agricultural Adjustment
Act of 1933, instituted by United
States President Franklin D.
Roosevelt (1882-1945) in an attempt to raise farm prices by paying farmers to take land out of
production. It called for crops such as cotton and
corn, among others, to be
plowed under (to be buried in the soil to
prevent overproduction) and farmers were
paid to slaughter 6,000,000 pigs in an
effort to
force the prices of existing farm
production into a higher
range. There was much protest against this
act in the United
States as food was being destroyed while there were needy people starving. In 1936 the Agricultural Adjustment
Act was declared unconstitutional by the United
States Supreme Court and was cancelled.
a
reference to the actions of
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, thirty-
second president of the United
States (1933 - 1945), who in his early
legislation, approved the
establishment of a new
government agency called the Agricultural Adjustment
Administration (AAA). The
purpose of this agency was the "effective
control of
crop surpluses." As a result restraints were placed on agricultural
production to
drive up the low farm prices at that
time; growing crops of
corn, cotton and other agricultural products were
plowed under as well, 6,000,000 pigs were killed.