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In the early 1930s, the U.S. government, under FDR's New Deal, passed the Agricultural Adjustment Act. Its goal was to raise crop prices by creating artificial scarcity. The logic was simple: if there's less food, the price goes up.
The government paid farmers to plow under existing crops and to slash livestock herds. Millions of pigs were slaughtered and left to rot. Vast fields of cotton and wheat were destroyed.
The official line was that there was a "surplus" of fruit- oranges, apples, peaches -that was driving prices into the ground. To correct the market, trees needed to be cut down. Large corporate fruit growers and canning associations were deeply involved. They had the capital and the political influence. They benefited enormously from the destruction of their smaller, independent competitors.
So they hired desperate, hungry men, often the very farmers who owned the orchards or their neighbors, to perform the grim task of cutting down their own, or their community's, source of food and income for 25 cents.
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