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You can find legit pie charts which cover all spending. They're all over the place. "Food and agriculture" - which contains more than just food stamps - is 4% of the total, not 1%.
Just look at the chart in the politifact article debunking the other chart.
https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-...art-federal-spending-circulating-internet-mi/
Either way, food stamps (AKA SNAP) costs about $70 billion. It's around 1/10th of our current military budget.
https://www.nationalpriorities.org/budget-basics/federal-budget-101/spending/
1/10th of the budget of employing tons of people across a multittude of braches of military - Army, Navy, Marines, Air Force, National Guard, Coast Guard, Reserves, etc...
Don't act as-if that is small change. One performs actions daily in which they are compensated. The other is the exact opposite.