Calley Means on Federal Grain, Corn, and Soy Subsidies: warns against

Calley Means says federal farm subsidies are “totally rigged”: vegetables and fruit get 0.4% of subsidies while grains, corn, and soy get 80%. He made the case on the Realfoodology podcast, arguing that the subsidy system actively funds the wrong foods.

His stated reasoning: the subsidy structure makes the commodity crops that feed the ultra-processed-food industry artificially cheap, while the produce he says Americans should eat gets almost nothing. In his telling, this is one of the clearest examples of government policy working against public health — taxpayer dollars subsidizing the metabolic crisis.

The position connects his farm-policy critique to his food-policy agenda: it is the supply-side counterpart to his SNAP, procurement, and guidelines fights, and the stated rationale behind his push for regenerative-agriculture incentives.

What Means says

• Means says vegetables and fruit get 0.4% of federal subsidies while grains, corn, and soy get 80%.
• He calls the subsidy structure “totally rigged.”
• He argues subsidies make ultra-processed-food ingredients artificially cheap while real food gets almost nothing.

(The subsidy percentages are Means’s attributed figures.)

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