I remember my parents telling us about how meat was the cheapest in the 1930s. Steak for breakfast, lunch, dinner.
So FDR decided to get the price UP by buying up millions of head of livestock, shooting and burying them.
And people who had no jobs and were starving in those years were denied the meat. It had to be buried.
They did, and still do, the same with agricultural products.
My neighbor had many acres of perfectly good peanuts they just plowed under......................