"We still pray to be given each day our daily bread. Yet there is too much bread, too much wheat and corn,meat and oil and almos
t every commodity required by man for his subsistence and material happiness, We are not able to purchase the abundance that modern methods of agriculture, mining and manufacture make available in such bountiful quantities. Why is mankind being asked to go hungry and cold and poverty stricken in the midst of plenty?" What longstanding problem faced by farmers in the U.S. does the above excerpt illustrate? * A. overproduction leading to depressed farm prices and low farmers' earnings
B. the struggle faced by mining and manufacturing companies
