"Americans want farm subsidies to go to human food, not animal feed: survey"

"A new survey has found that 78 percent of Americans want federal farm funding to prioritize food for people over feed for livestock. The Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future and the farm advocacy group Farm Action published the bipartisan survey of 1000 people on Thursday. It represented the first time those groups asked explicitly about American crop subsidies — a form of federal aid overwhelmingly spent on growing crops to feed beef and dairy cattle, chickens and pigs."

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