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July 1941. "The beef cut. Packing plant in Austin, Minnesota." Medium format acetate negative by John Vachon for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
With the passing of the Lend-Lease Act of 1941, Hormel Foods shipped up to 15 million cans of meat per week overseas, most of which were products from the iconic SPAM brand. By 1944, more than 90 percent of the canned foods were shipped for government use.
Suggestion: don't follow Dave's link to the LoC's Hormel plant collection right before bed.
Those are the tiniest cows I've ever seen.
[Veal calves. - Dave]
Isn't this the Hormel pork plant in Austin?
[It's the Hormel meat-packing plant. - Dave]
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