# Trimming Beets

Title: "We Can Beet Hitler Like This" Poster with comic sketch of Hitler is pelted with pink paint or biomas. Title: "But We Can Do More to Defeat Hitler and the Axis by Using Beets as Food." Hands stack cardboard boxes marked: "V2s, Libby McNeill & Libby, Chicago ILL, Packed" Hands rotate box to display printed ends stating: "6/10 Cans Cut Beets..." Male worker places boxes on rolling belt. Title: "Food Is a Munition of War" Title: "And Quality in Food Is Just as Essential As Quality in Other Munitions" Title: "Our Fighting Men Are Supplied with Guns, Tanks, and Planes of the Highest Quality" Foxhole POV of men hiding and observing blasts Title: "Likewise It Is Your Individual Responsibility to Provide Food of the Highest Quality" Title: "Here Is a Comparison of Good Quality and Poor Quality Work as Determined by the Laboratory Grader." Two men in white shirts face one another across a testing table with three enamel trays. One man (on the right) takes a can of beets and pours the contents onto the enamel tray in front of him.. Then empties the second tray. Using two spoons, he lifts individual beet slices off the two trays and onto the third tray. Then labels them with a sign "Low Grade". Another bunch labeled with a tag: "Okay." Title: "Workers On the Home Front Are Also Entitled to Food of High Quality" Title: "The American Housewife Can Depend on the Libby Label As a Guarantee of High Quality" POV of Grocery store exterior, people going in. Grocery store interior with…

- Kind: Film
- Year: 1942
- By: Libby Foods
- Genres: Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/0905_Trimming_Beets_02_22_04_23)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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