Food Freedom is Popular
Food Freedom founded the country. Federal law long protected the right to buy food directly from the famer without government permission. Yet it suffers attack across the globe.
We asked Americans what they thought about buying food directly from a farmer without government permits, licenses, or intervening conditions. We asked this question in multiple ways, including whether Americans believed they supported a right to buy food directly from farmers without government permission and how much such an issue would impact their vote for a candidate.
Here were American answers:
Please tell us whether you agree or disagree: “Americans should be allowed to buy food directly from farmers without getting government permission”
Agree: 78%
Disagree: 11%
Unsure: 11%
Strongly Agree: 50%
Every demographic group supported the right to buy food directly from the farmer without government permission. Every ideological group supported the right to buy food directly from the farmer without government permission. Every age group supported the right to buy food directly from the farmer without government permission. Every group across religion, race and region supported the right to buy food directly from the farmer without government permission.
When asked whether this was a voting issue for them, Americans answered as follows: impact of a candidate supporting a right to buy food directly from farmers without government permission.
More Likely: 58%
Less Likely: 12%
No Impact: 31%
Once again, every demographic group, every ideological group, every age group, every group across party, race, region and religion reported they were more likely to support a food freedom candidate than less likely by some of the largest margins on any issue the company ever surveyed.
When asked whether they wanted “more food should be available directly from the farmer than big corporations”, Americans across all parties, regions, race, religions, ages, and ideologies reported overwhelming support (80% to 9%), with 51% “strongly agreeing.”
The sourcing for these beliefs derived from a skepticism toward corporatized, industrialized, monopolized food supply under the control of government bureaucrats and big corporations. Americans expressed strong skepticism toward government bureaucrats (73% report having “too much power”) and big corporations (73% report having “too much power”),and strong sympathy toward empowering farmers and ordinary people (79% report having “not enough power”).
Most notably, the swing voter survey revealed just how hot the issue of food freedom is for the very voter groups that will decide Election 2024.
1776 Law Center commissioned a survey to uncover who these voters are. One-in-5 voters are uncommitted to any Presidential candidate and admitted they are considering multiple options, including whether to vote for Trump or Biden or Kennedy. Of note, half the country excluded voting for each of the candidates; about 40% committed to voting for Trump; about 40% committed to voting for Biden; 5% committed to voting for Kennedy. Half the country said they are considering voting for Trump, Biden or Kennedy. Who are the 20% uncommitted?
What motivates these voters? These voters listed the issues “more likely” to impact their vote as: the right to buy food directly from a farmer without government permission (73% of swing voters as opposed to 53% of other voters).
Food freedom is a big winner with the American people.
1776 Law Center commissioned BIG DATA POLL, a survey company with an established record of successful surveys for the past decade. Using statistically validated methodologies, proprietary access to voter files, and diversified sourcing, BDP interviewed 2000 registered voters nationwide from May 17 to May 24, 2024 via mixed-mode to include likely voters screened by self-reported likelihood to vote and independently confirmed vote history. Interviews conducted online are sourced through Lucid (CINT) and phone interviews including P2P SMS and text-to-online are sourced from the Aristotle National Voter File Database. Results were weighted for gender, age, race and ethnicity, education, geography and region to approximate the American public. The overall sampling error is +/- 1.8% at a 95% confidence interval.