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"Remember when the AAA, Killed a million hogs a day? Instead of hogs it's men today, Plow the fourth one under." The Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)

The Almanac Singers weaponized this New Deal memory to attack the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940 (the peacetime draft). They argued that just as the government callously destroyed every fourth row of crops to stabilize the economy, it was now preparing to sacrifice every fourth American young man to feed the military-industrial complex. 3. Examining the Drastic Shift and Legacy Plow Under (Original Mix)

The Almanac Singers’ "Plow Under": An Analysis of Anti-War Protest Music 1. Contextualizing the Era "Remember when the AAA, Killed a million hogs a day

: The official line of the American left flipped instantly from isolationism to a fierce demand for American intervention to defeat fascism. Analyzing the Song's Metaphor

: The Almanac Singers—which featured legendary folk artists like Pete Seeger, Lee Hays, and Millard Lampell—were deeply tied to left-wing causes, labor unions, and the Popular Front. Dutifully aligning with the political shift, they wrote a series of songs protesting the war. 2. Analyzing the Song's Metaphor