Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:7 of those are crap. Candy? JFC, I never got candy as a kid and my parents were loaded.

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.

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

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?

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

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:7 of those are crap. Candy? JFC, I never got candy as a kid and my parents were loaded.

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.

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

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.

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.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:7 of those are crap. Candy? JFC, I never got candy as a kid and my parents were loaded.

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.

Well some of us do. EBT should have much stricter standards. It’s nothing but a corporate welfare program for Big Food.

It’s not like it only covers junk. Snap covers whole grains, produce, fruit, etc.
why are you assuming it only buys junk?!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:7 of those are crap. Candy? JFC, I never got candy as a kid and my parents were loaded.

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.

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

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?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Heres an interesting stat for you. The average female in America is 146 pounds. The average female in America who receives SNAP benefits is 211 pounds.

Now how is that?

US is the most obscenely obese country on earth.

Because calories are cheap. I can feed a family cheaply on boxed macaroni and cheese and canned soup.
Because I need a working oven to make casseroles but I only need a microwave that works to heat spaghettios.

Bevause generational poverty means your comfort meals include potato chips.

All of this needs to be dealt with but why does it need to be done by policing what a family buys? Can reform be left for when we don’t have a crisis brewing?

Have you seen what they processed crap they feed for free school lunches? They do it because it’s impossible to feed large groups of people cheaply without doing it.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:7 of those are crap. Candy? JFC, I never got candy as a kid and my parents were loaded.

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.

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

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.

Anonymous wrote:Heres an interesting stat for you. The average female in America is 146 pounds. The average female in America who receives SNAP benefits is 211 pounds.

Now how is that?

Would love to see where you sourced those stats. The average woman in America weighs 172 pounds, according to the CDC: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/body-measurements.htm

Anonymous wrote:Heres an interesting stat for you. The average female in America is 146 pounds. The average female in America who receives SNAP benefits is 211 pounds.

Now how is that?

US is the most obscenely obese country on earth.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:7 of those are crap. Candy? JFC, I never got candy as a kid and my parents were loaded.

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.

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

Heres an interesting stat for you. The average female in America is 146 pounds. The average female in America who receives SNAP benefits is 211 pounds.

Now how is that?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:7 of those are crap. Candy? JFC, I never got candy as a kid and my parents were loaded.

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.

Well some of us do. EBT should have much stricter standards. It’s nothing but a corporate welfare program for Big Food.

Agree with this. I watch the shopping carts when checking out at Walmart on the eastern shore of Maryland. They are loaded with 2 litre sodas, high sugar processed desserts, and snacks with no nutritional value. The produce section is at the front of the store and the prices are decent on fresh foods at Walmart but no one picks up an apple or produce.

EBT subsidizes Big Food and creates morbidly obese Americans.

Take it up with the Big Food lobbyists. They’ve rigged the rules in their favor.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:7 of those are crap. Candy? JFC, I never got candy as a kid and my parents were loaded.

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.

Well some of us do. EBT should have much stricter standards. It’s nothing but a corporate welfare program for Big Food.

Agree with this. I watch the shopping carts when checking out at Walmart on the eastern shore of Maryland. They are loaded with 2 litre sodas, high sugar processed desserts, and snacks with no nutritional value. The produce section is at the front of the store and the prices are decent on fresh foods at Walmart but no one picks up an apple or produce.

EBT subsidizes Big Food and creates morbidly obese Americans.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:7 of those are crap. Candy? JFC, I never got candy as a kid and my parents were loaded.

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.

Well some of us do. EBT should have much stricter standards. It’s nothing but a corporate welfare program for Big Food.

You are jerk.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:7 of those are crap. Candy? JFC, I never got candy as a kid and my parents were loaded.

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.

Well some of us do. EBT should have much stricter standards. It’s nothing but a corporate welfare program for Big Food.

Anonymous wrote:Do you think this issue will be resolved before Nov. 1?

no