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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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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This thread is about SNAP being cut off. Can you stop? Do you think people should starve because they aren't buying food you approve? [/quote]

You think people consuming 200% of the calories their body needs are at risk for starving? [/quote]

Fat people still have to eat, and yes they can starve. What is wrong with you?[/quote]

Of course, but less food.  You think people receiving snap can buy zero food at all without snap? [/quote]

And they be even more likely to buy crap food because it is cheap! They’re not going to buy ground beef or milk like they do now.

They’re going to buy ramen packs and other cheap crap. [/quote]

There are many, many heathy options that are cheap, if not cheaper than junk. People buy the junk because of convenience and preference, not price.  [/quote]

Yes they are making rationale choices. Make the junk more expensive, limit what products they can buy. It’s not take their money away and the problem goes away.  It will make it worse.
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1) Tax the junk
2) Teach nutritional science in school (incorporate it into HS bio AND bring back home ec involving meal prep)
3) identify food desserts (the way we do flood zones) and utilize the National Guard to devise a way to supply health food in these spots (apparently they are available to patrol streets of cities, can't they also carry in food?)
4) Take a look at what agricultural constraints on pesticides, etc exist in Europe and impose those here (bc European fruits and veggies are SO much better)
5) Allow medicare/caid billing codes to reimburse for more food prescriptions
6) launch a PSA campaign showing the preparation of 15 minute healthy meals for under $XYZ and a weekly shopping list for under $XYZ to buy ingredients for breakfast/lunch/dinner for 1, 2, 3, etc people

Am sure there are additional ideas to call for. Not only will this help people stretch their dollars farther and minimize hunger but also will make people more healthy and reduce healthcare costs.[/quote]

I’m not going to kiss your athleisure covered ass for this inane bullshit. Even on a long thread, it is completely inappropriate to conflate a healthier reform of SNAP with failing to provide any supplemental income to the poorest and hungriest among us. Go try to make a friend in middle age where you two dopes can natter on at each other.[/quote]

42 million people are not the "poorest and hungriest among us." Massive reform in the entire program is needed, starting with cutting the welfare subsidy to Big Food, which is what is driving this.[/quote]

You deflecting MAHA sh!tsack. Yeah let’s definitely get our priorities straight.
You are exactly like this bald-faced Brittany Hughes monster, fretting over the good people purchase at Walmart. You’re cruel, not high-minded, so sit down and STFU.

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Can’t handle the truth?[/quote]

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