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Is food given to people in NYC/East Coast for free, or do the people there purchase it?
by trentmb 13y ago
Is food given to people in NYC/East Coast for free, or do the people there purchase it?
- thwest 13y agoPeople there purchase commodities in great volume, surely.
- alphydan 13y agoCertainly not for free, but definitely with some component of aid (even in NY) > The United States currently pays around $20 billion per year to farmers in direct subsidies as "farm income stabilization" [0] That means, the consumer is not paying the full price of farming at the till (both this subsidy and aid come from taxes) [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agricultural_subsidy#United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agricultural_subsidy#United_St...