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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]First, this will never happen because the corporations who make these products will threaten to pull donation dollars from anyone supporting the idea.

Second, you all need to educate yourselves about the concept of food deserts. Many folks who use food stamps live in crappy areas where there aren't stores or markets that sell fresh foods. Or sometimes they do sell them, but they are incredibly expensive. [b]So who is going to draw the line over what is fresh enough and what is too processed[/b], and how will they ensure that everyone has access to a market selling affordable products? Also, many people on food stamps struggle with maintaining appliances/utilities that can be used to store and cook fresh food. How will that be addressed?

I mean, just say that you are mad that poor people are being given  money for food. At least that would be honest.[/quote]

There’s an entire category of items in the grocery store called “soda” and another one called “candy”. Hint: look at what’s written on the signs at the top of the aisles to find the items. That’s what we’re talking about here. Low hanging fruit that EVERYBODY acknowledges is unhealthy and causes damage to people. And we already exclude other unhealthy things in the grocery store from being able to be purchased with food stamps (no cigarettes for example). Literally the only attempted justification on this thread so far for leaving soda and candy as allowed purchases is “but poor people deserve some luxury!!” which is completely insane. Nobody deserves the luxury of someone else footing the bill so that they can suck down gallons of soda.[/quote]

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