Anonymous wrote:I think these videos are fake. These are not representative of snap recipients who are children, elderly, disabled, RURAL, WHITE.

Anyway, volunteering at the food bank today and we shall see how long the lines are.

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

no

Woman has a violent message for the “white man”: We will hunt you down and eat you if you take our SNAP benefits

These are AI generated videos

https://www.theroot.com/racist-ai-videos-of-black-women-complaining-about-their-2000070131

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

no

Woman has a violent message for the “white man”: We will hunt you down and eat you if you take our SNAP benefits

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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.

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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?

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

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

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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?

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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?

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

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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.

This. What happened after Michelle Obama’s school lunch reforms? Big Food reformulated lots of processed food to add more whole grains. It’s still lots of heavily processed crap.

I guess MAGA’s answer is “give them less money and we’’ll solve the obesity epidemic.”

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

no

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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?

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Anonymous wrote:What percentage of grocery store sales is attributable to SNAP? How long will it be before grocery stores start going under?

Depends on where you live. Rural America is hugely dependent on SNAP.

This story is about the cuts in the republican tax bill not cutting snap altogether. One store said 40% of sales were from SNAP



https://stateline.org/2025/06/02/gop-cuts-to-food-assistance-would-hit-rural-america-especially-hard/

SNAP accounts for approximately 12% of total grocery sales in the U.S., though this percentage can vary significantly by store type and location. For some stores, especially those in low-income areas, SNAP can represent a much larger share of revenue, sometimes exceeding 60%

This will certainly affect grocery store sales. Walmart is a big one. People will not “use their own money” when there isn’t any.

Yes, there is “their own money” it’s just spent on other things. If snap goes away people would shift how they spend (waste) their money

Things like electricity and housing? You are clueless about what it means to be poor in this country.

This. More than half of SNAP benefits use it for less than a year. 2/3 are off within 2 years. The people who are on for years? Mostly likely to be elderly or disabled. For most people it’s a bridge. SNAP benefits are paltry for most families.

Op-Ed from a mom today who’s been on it twice. The first time when her husband left her with her kids. The second time when she lost her job while her child had cancer.

People complain about her using a special matching program for farmers markets after stretching elsewhere to cover the essentials.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/opinion/snap-shutdown-food-stamps.html

I guess she should have sold her car when her husband left or when she lost her job or when her kid had cancer rather than sign up for SNAP. Maybe she can work for rations. Definitely needs to get rid of her phone and probably her TV.

The food stamp program has no nutritional standards, allowing participants to purchase any food or beverage product intended for consumption, except alcohol. As a result, data show that sizable portions of SNAP dollars purchase nonnutritious foods, such as sugary beverages and ultra-processed foods, which can lead to poor health.”

Are you kidding me with this list? More than half of the items on that list are “healthy”. I’ll grant you soft drinks are number one but 2 and 3 are milk and ground beef. The horrors!

Poor people can’t win. Buy soft drinks you’re a welfare queen. Buy peaches at a farmers market with matching funds to help local farmers, you’re a little too high and mighty.

Give me a break.

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Here is a much more comprehensive table: https://fns-prod.azureedge.us/sites/default/files/ops/SNAPFoodsTypicallyPurchased-Summary.pdf

TLDR: People on SNAP have very similar food spending habits to people not on SNAP.

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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.