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If you have ever wondered where your tax dollars go, you might take a closer look at the meat counter the next time you visit a grocery store. Those cellophane-wrapped slabs of beef and lamb symbolize a littleknown agricultural subsidy program that spends millions of our tax dollars yearly to feed livestock and that results in ecological damage across large portions of the West.
The subsidy: the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Emergency Feed Program.
The beneficiaries: ranchers, who can request payment for as much as 50 percent of the cost of livestock feed during years of failed grass growth.
The annual cost: anywhere from $100 million to J'00 million (in some years, enough to fund the federal endangered-species program for a decade).
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