Starting Thursday, Americans in five states who get government help paying for groceries will see new restrictions on soda, candy and other foods they can buy with those benefits.
Indiana, Iowa, Nebraska, Utah and West Virginia are the first of at least 18 states to enact waivers prohibiting the purchase of certain foods through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP.
It’s part of a push by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins to urge states to strip foods regarded as unhealthy from the $100 billion federal program – long known as food stamps – that serves 42 million Americans.
“We cannot continue a system that forces taxpayers to fund programs that make people sick and then pay a second time to treat the illnesses those very programs help create,” Kennedy said in a statement in December.
So instead of holding junk food companies in any way responsible, we are going to make sure that poor can’t get anything enjoyable! Steamed cabbage and leftover meat cuttings is all you’ll get and you’ll like it! Or else you wouldn’t be poor!
Junk food companies could be held responsible by people not being able to purchase their goods in a subsidized way if they aren’t healthy. Thus they make less profit. Whether that actually is what will happen here is doubtful.
You act like junk food is the only thing enjoyable they can get. Naw junk food is a complete waste of money. Ive thought for years it shouldve been restricted, i have known people who blew ALL of their food stamps on shit. Its a government program to feed people, not to induce diabetes.
It betrays a deep lack of education, palate, and kitchen experience in yourself that you equate junk foods to “enjoyable” and that [healthy greens] and [meat] are in any way punishments.