from farm to plate





This is the land of teamwork and
teams,

Teams of work as well as play;

For it’s pulling together at game or job

That means the American Way.


We cheer for champion teams at sport,

Plane- and tank-building teams in war;

Let’s look at a team that fills the Home Plate —

Farmer to Packer to Store.


The Farmer plays a vital part

In this meat-producing corps:

He raises cattle, lambs and hogs

Farmer to Packer to Store.


But pigs is pigs and steers are steers

Till they reach the Packer’s door;

He changes them into “eating” meat —

Farmer to Packer to Store . . .