Possibly? The US military needed to feed it's soldiers during WW2 on the other side of the globe. There were a lot of advances in food prepartaion, sotrage, and manufacturing that came about in order to do this.
What are the alternatives here? Either the government builds the factories and just shuts them down post war, or private companies can do it, in which case they've got a factory at the end of the war - might as well use it...
It's not as if these are factories for chemical weapons or warplanes - it's food..
What are the alternatives here? Either the government builds the factories and just shuts them down post war, or private companies can do it, in which case they've got a factory at the end of the war - might as well use it...
It's not as if these are factories for chemical weapons or warplanes - it's food..