Surprise! Voters Want The Government To Inspect Food

President Donald Trump is waging a war on your fridge—in more ways than one. And he’s doing so with strong voter opposition.

The Food and Drug Administration is reportedly drawing up plans to end most of its routine food safety inspections, shifting the onus of that critical oversight onto state and local officials. The FDA already outsources some of those inspections—but not all of them and not in every state. And it’s not clear how those gaps would be filled if the Trump administration pulls the trigger. As of April, the FDA was disputing reports of the plan.

Either way, voters overwhelmingly hate the idea of the FDA ending its routine food safety inspections, according to a new Civiqs poll conducted for Daily Kos. The poll, fielded May 17-20, finds that 84% of registered voters oppose such a move, including 67% who “strongly oppose” the move. 

That opposition comes from every partisan angle too: 95% of Democrats, 81% of independents, and even 75% of Republicans oppose cessation of FDA food inspections. Just 12% of Republicans support that move.

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