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And This Little Piggy Had None; Challenging the Dominant Discourse on Farmed Animals in Children's Picturebooks

Book by Janae Dimick · 1 quotes · Animals, Farming, Politics

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“Sanders, and many other politicians, also voted for the 2014 Farm Bill, which continues a long tradition of using taxpayer money to subsidize farms. These well-intentioned subsidies pay for programs like “crop insurance, disaster payments, and counter cyclical payments, to name a few (Simon, p. 79, 2013). Oddly enough, as Simon points out, two-thirds of these subsidies go to the very foods the USDA recommends we limit in our diets while only two percent of them support the production of fruit and vegetables, which the USDA recommends we eat more of. Simon estimates that the U.S. gives 38.4 billion dollars a year to the growers of crops (soy and corn) that ultimately go towards animal feed for meat and dairy production.”

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