That We May Eat

I picked this up the last week:

It's the 1975 edition of the Yearbook of Agriculture that was put out by the United States Department of Agriculture. It had been the property of our late unlamented douchebag Congressman Jimmy Quliien. I bought it at a thrift store for fifty cents. It's chock full of photos of food, scientists, and farms. The photos are at times beautiful, banal, or just plain weird.


I love this aerial shot of a pineapple grove.


And this one of how they're breeding pigs with less fat and more meat.


Speaking of pork products, here's a product they were really excited about in the book. It's a pork loaf. It was made by flaking off slices of meat and then adding fillers and binders and pressing it all into a loaf shape. Mmmm, it looks pig-a-licious!



There's a ton of pictures of scientists modifying food and plants.

And plenty of harvesting shots too.

And of course there must be pictures of happy people eating all that food we grew and raised.

And there must be shots of some of those oh so productive American farms.

Some of my favorite photos though are of people being tested in some way like these:

This gal was in an experiment that measured her levels of exertion as she went about doing household tasks.

I'm not sure what this one was all about but isn't it a great picture just the same?

You can see the rest of the great pictures from that book by clicking here.