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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]7 of those are crap. Candy? JFC, I never got candy as a kid and my parents were loaded. [/quote]

And 13 things are regular staples. I’d be fine blocking candy and soft drinks from purchases.  I don’t have a problem with frozen novelties or snacks or cookies. [/quote]

You should care.  24% of low income kids are obese, not just overweight, but obese. Compared to 10% obesity rate of kids not low income.  It’s because they are and they are over consuming junk food, by a lot. Snap is given specifically to buy heathy foods and it’s being used to purchase junk.

This is an old article.  Obesity rate has increased from 20% to 24% since 2015

https://www.ers.usda.gov/amber-waves/2015/december/gap-in-obesity-rates-between-low-and-high-income-children-widens-with-age

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Cool.  Take it up with Congress if Speaker Johnson ever reopens the House. They make the laws. The answer is not “turn off SNAP benefits”. Change  the law to stop subsidizing Big Food on the front end (ag subsidies that go mostly to big crops like corn for corn syrup) and on the back end (SNAP benefits).

Good luck with that MAGA. In the meantime, stop demonizing people for making rationale choices.

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If snap got turned off, no one would starve, they would maybe consume fewer overall calories- which is needed.  It’s either done by eating less of the food you normally eat or exchanging some (most) of the junk food for heathy foods with fewer calories. But something needs to change. [/quote]

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