NEW YORK, Oct. 16, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- As World Food Day highlights global hunger challenges, a new report, Food Not Feed: How to Stop the World's Biggest Form of Food Waste, by Compassion in World Farming exposes a hidden scandal in America's food system: taxpayers spend billions annually subsidizing corn and soybeans—not to feed Americans, but to feed animals on factory farms. The report reveals that feeding 202.7 million tons of human-edible grain to industrially farmed animals results in 160 million tons of food lost each year—more than all household, restaurant, and retail food waste combined. Over 60% of U.S. fruits and 38% of vegetables are now imported because domestic farmland grows feed instead of food. They deserve markets that work, and Americans deserve a food system that actually feeds them." Founded in 1967, Compassion operates across Europe, the U.S., China, and South Africa, working with governments, corporations, and citizens to transform the global food system.