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Removing and reducing subsidies also generally has better polling as well from what I've seen
Do you think so? From the people I know I think cutting meat and fossil fuel subsidises would be very unpopular. We have climbing food prices so if meat became more expensive I think there might be uproar - it's needed though!
Apparently looking back, it's harder to find some of that polling that I remember reading. It depends on where in the world you are, but here's some polling showing support for removing or reducing some of the animal agriculture subsidies
https://thehill.com/policy/equilibrium-sustainability/3841276-americans-want-farm-subsidies-to-go-to-human-food-not-animal-feed-survey/
For fossil fuel subsidies, apparently much more polling exists for carbon taxes, so it was actually difficult to find them
https://www.filesforprogress.org/datasets/2021/8/dfp_ending_fossil_fuel_subsidies.pdf
Though in looking back for some of these sources, I did find an interesting study for fossil fuels subsidies showing that the polling for carbon taxes and subsidies was pretty similar in 5 developing countries (Ecuador, Egypt, India, Indonesia and Mexico) with support varying on more of what the money was put towards instead.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-023-01597-5#Sec5
Thank you for the links and it is somewhat heartening to read the support for such things!