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and other proteins. yet our subsidy program doesn t support that plate at all. as you mentioned, it s as low as 1% to 6% of subsidies go to speciality crops known as fruits and vegetables. the rest go where? 85% to commodity crops, corn, soy, cotton. everything that goes into highly-processed foods. 10% to 15% go to meat and dairy. good reasons why those subsidies stay there and 81% again, large numbers. in your survey worry that food and ag businesses have given millions to candidates for congress. there s a lot of money to be made from these subsidies. right. not everyone knows politics is awash with money and big companies have a lot of influence over the way congress votes off certain views. they are surprised to see this is an issue where there is also a lot of money driving some of these decisions. they are surprised about that. quite angry that that was the
society. they re holding good gmos. all we re asking is this be labeled, nothing more than that. when they are labeled, would you still elect not to use them in your restaurant s foods? right now, i can t tell. if you re buying organic, no, you re not getting gmo food. is there a taste argument here? i think there s a taste argument we re talking about commodity crops, corn, things like that. we re talking about animal feed and things like that. i think there s much of a taste difference. we re not talking about things like broccoli and tomatoes. although, one day we could see that. we ve been looking all week long at hunger and food insecurity around the country. a lot of people we talked to expressed hopes there would be increases in crop yield, in technology. you don t buy it? no, we re not seeing it. there s definitely literature on both sides of this. you think that s not worth presenting? all right. you support the state level
about, eating well and nutrition and food culture gets put in this classist bucket. we sort of see like the two americas in and around food. as someone that runs a magazine that is it s a big magazine. you re talking to a lot of people out there. i feel like the ways in which we talk about food have become increasingly divided on class lines. i wonder how you deal with that? eating well can cost a lot of money. yes. if you re buying kale, in season vegetables at the market you re walking out with better to eat badly than well. calories are expensive. we support agriculture $20 million, majority to commodity crops, 1% to food and vegetables, specialty krons. if we start supporting level