This is part of the same socialist FDR set of controls put on just about everything during the depression. They dumped milk, killed and buried livestock, burned grain and destroyed produce to suit the price and supply controls the progressive economists and sometimes non-economists thought would fit their ideas of fairness. Non-compliance meant jail time for the producers and possible confiscation of the farm. FDR and his minions did more to deepen the depression than anybody imagines.
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I bet most people wouldn’t believe it either.
Absolutely right. First they caused it, then blamed capitalism, then used it as an excuse to install more government. What could possibly go wrong?