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Americans Don’t Want Feds in Their Shopping Carts

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is proposing major changes in grocery stores to encourage Americans to alter their eating habits, including talking shopping carts and giveaway prizes for those who buy healthier items. But most Americans feel it is not the federal government’s role to try to change what they eat.

Only 21% of Americans say they are more likely to shop in a grocery store that uses the government-proposed methods to encourage healthier eating. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 33% are less likely to shop in a store that employs these methods. Forty-one percent (41%) says it would have no impact on their shopping decisions. (To see survey question wording, click here.)

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The survey of 1,000 Adults nationwide was conducted on July 20-21, 2014 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC. See methodology.

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