rationing

• food shortages due to German U-Boat campaign

  
  

  concern that food shortages would lead to malnutrition/starvation

  
  

  priority was to provide food to soldiers at the front meant food shortages at home

  
  

  lack of skilled workers on farms so food production suffered

  
  

  fear of food riots/effects of food shortages on public morale

  
  

  fear that only the rich could afford food and the poorest in society would go without