study shows how 42M recipients spend their food stamps

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Anonymous wrote:Junk food is cheap. Healthy food is expensive. Work from there.

Chips and soda are not cheap! Frozen pizzas are not cheap! What junk food do you think is cheap?

Exactly. Growing up, we couldn’t afford that stuff.

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My parents were quite poor when I was a young kid and we never had any of this stuff in the house.

In the 90s they started having a little extra money and that is when they started drinking soda and eating Snackwells and getting fat.

There are plenty of cheap healthy foods. And does not take much time to peel and slice a couple of carrots or cook some oatmeal. People just don’t wanna and our society is getting weaker and less healthy. Time to cut off the supply, IMO.

^^ all of this.

Why does the fed gov allow this to happen? It’s really not right at all. I am all for helping people (especially disabled people and families with kids) get food. It’s something we should do, no one should be hungry in our country. But this is a travesty. This program actually harms people.

We’re paying government to kill off citizens.

“Study: Foods like ice cream, chips and candy are just as addictive as cigarettes or heroin

An analysis of 281 studies in 36 countries, published in the British Medical Journal this month, found that your inability to put down the ice cream, chips and candy may have less to do with your self-control and more to do with the addictive quality of ultra-processed foods or UPFs.


“The combination of refined carbohydrates and fats often found in UPFs seems to have a supra-additive effect on brain reward systems, above either macronutrient alone, which may increase the addictive potential of these foods,” the study said.

Using the same guidelines for measuring substance abuse, the researchers found that 14% of adults and 12% of children were addicted to ultra-processed foods.“
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2023/10/23/study-ice-cream-chips-addictive-cigarettes-heroin-drugs/71286591007/

So leftists think taking taxpayer money and trying to provide food for poor people and families but instead getting them addicted to food with zero nutritional value and making them fat and sick and eventually killing them is progressive?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What is this regressive, cruel, right wing nonsense?

"SNAP is good for local economies – each dollar in federally funded SNAP benefits generates $1.79 in economic activity."

“children in families receiving SNAP were significantly more likely to be classified as ‘well’ than young children whose families were eligible but did not receive SNAP.”

"There is strong evidence of SNAP’s effectiveness in alleviating food insecurity. Two studies included in the recent “Long-Term Benefits of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program” White House Report demonstrate this point. Mabli and Ohls (2015) compared households’ state of food security before and after receiving SNAP benefits and found that “SNAP participation reduced the overall fraction of households that were food insecure and the fraction that were very low food secure by around 17 percent and 19 percent, respectively. "

https://frac.org/programs/supplemental-nutrition-assistance-program-snap/positive-effect-snap-benefits-participants-communities#:~:text=Economic%20Impacts&text=For%20example%2C%20SNAP%20is%20good,supports%20for%20low%2Dincome%20families.

SNAP is a fantastic program that has significantly improved access to food and childhood nutrition. Poor people should be allowed small edible luxuries like chips and soda just like you and I are. To suggest otherwise is heartless and inhuman. Shame on everyone spouting this horrible anti-poor filth in this thread.

A luxury is, by definition, not something that is enjoyed by everyone every day.

If enjoyed infrequently, as those things should be, the cost will be low anyway. There is no reason for that to be subsidized.

Also, this is a huge amount of money being pumped into the economy. No wonder food inflation is out of control. Food would be more affordable in the first place if there wasn’t all this cash being pumped in.

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Anonymous wrote:Why can’t the snap benefits be limited to vegetables, pasta or meat?

What would be super helpful is for the working parent with SNAP to be able to go into the grocery store and buy a hot, roast chicken out of the case - but that's not allowed. So healthy-ish prepared foods are a no-go, but the soda is a go (because the sugar industry, who DONATES TONS OF MONEY TO POLITICIANS, wants it).

That’s why stores have whole roasted chicken in their deli cases that can be bought with SNAP benefits and heated up at home.

So SNAP recipients are unable to heat up some chicken? That’s your point?

And instead of buying a chicken and heating it up for their kids, they buy a 12 pack of sugar soda and drink Coke for dinner? That’s your theory.

[Anonymous]

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How about this? Defund the government.

How about no? I like having schools, roads, police and fire departments, airports, etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Why can’t the snap benefits be limited to vegetables, pasta or meat?

What would be super helpful is for the working parent with SNAP to be able to go into the grocery store and buy a hot, roast chicken out of the case - but that's not allowed. So healthy-ish prepared foods are a no-go, but the soda is a go (because the sugar industry, who DONATES TONS OF MONEY TO POLITICIANS, wants it).

That’s why stores have whole roasted chicken in their deli cases that can be bought with SNAP benefits and heated up at home.

So SNAP recipients are unable to heat up some chicken? That’s your point?

And instead of buying a chicken and heating it up for their kids, they buy a 12 pack of sugar soda and drink Coke for dinner? That’s your theory.

*in their cold deli cases, they roast chicken and then cool it and put it in beside the deli salads and deli sandwiches and offer people a cold roast chicken that can be bought on SNAP benefits.

[Anonymous]

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How about this? Defund the government.

How about no? I like having schools, roads, police and fire departments, airports, etc.

How about we just take soda off SNAP benefits?

[Anonymous]

So block soda pop from SNAP.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:
How about this? Defund the government.

How about no? I like having schools, roads, police and fire departments, airports, etc.

How about we just take soda off SNAP benefits?

Jinx!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So block soda pop from SNAP.

+1 that works

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
How about this? Defund the government.

How about no? I like having schools, roads, police and fire departments, airports, etc.

How about we just take soda off SNAP benefits?

Jinx!

*you owe me a soda, and please don’t use SNAP to buy it.

(haha like anyone here uses SNAP)

[Anonymous]

Considering the costs of subpar daycare, expensive fast food garbage every day, frequent medical appointments for sickly children, wouldn’t it be less costly for one parent to be the household manager?

It used to be grandma or auntie who would help at home, but hey, government broke up vulnerable families, especially in minority communities.

The more I learn, the more I know “Uncle Sam” is NOT our friend.

Question EVERYTHING they’re doing to us.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Junk food is cheap. Healthy food is expensive. Work from there.

+1 and typically, low income parents don't have time to cook healthy from scratch, nor are they educated enough to understand how terrible over processed food is.

Also, for those in low income urban areas, there is no grocery store with fresh produce nearby.

[Anonymous]

This is a pretty significant stat from OP:

“Food stamp enrollment has increased significantly, surging from 17.3 million individuals in 2001 to 42.1 million in 2023.”


Maybe we should look at the reason for the surge and how to get people off food stamps.

[Anonymous]

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Considering the costs of subpar daycare, expensive fast food garbage every day, frequent medical appointments for sickly children, wouldn’t it be less costly for one parent to be the household manager?

It used to be grandma or auntie who would help at home, but hey, government broke up vulnerable families, especially in minority communities.

The more I learn, the more I know “Uncle Sam” is NOT our friend.

Question EVERYTHING they’re doing to us.

It seems like some posters are adamant that people be given taxpayer money for food and instead of spending it on food have the right to buy soda and junk. Like they are super mad that anyone says soda should not be allowed as a SNAP purchase and call anyone who dares disagree with that a regressive right wing jerk.

So scary, and proves your point.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Junk food is cheap. Healthy food is expensive. Work from there.

Chips and soda are not cheap! Frozen pizzas are not cheap! What junk food do you think is cheap?

Exactly. Growing up, we couldn’t afford that stuff.

dp This is 2024, not 1974. A 2 liter bottle of soda is cheaper than a half gallon of milk.

I also remember soda being expensive when I was younger. We only started getting it when my dad started making more when I was a teen. McD was also not that relatively cheap.

This is not the case today.

A little carton of fresh strawberries cost $4.99 (and sometimes $6.99). It's not much of a snack to last a week, and actually, it wouldn't even last week because it would start to get moldy. A bag of chips is $2.99 and can last a week.