Posted on 02/16/2016 3:06:50 AM PST by Olog-hai
Retailers that accept food stamps would have to start stocking a wider variety of healthy foods or face the loss of consumers under proposed rules expected to be announced by the Agriculture Department on Tuesday.
The rules are designed to ensure that the more than 46 million Americans who use food stamps have better access to healthy foods although they don't dictate what people buy or eat. A person using food stamp dollars could still purchase as much junk food as they wanted, but they would at least have more options in the store to buy fruits, vegetables, dairy, meats and bread.
In 2014, Congress required the Agriculture Department to develop regulations to make sure that stores that accept food stamp dollars, now called the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, stock a wider array of healthy food choices. ...
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In 2014, Congress required the Agriculture Department to develop regulations to make sure that stores that accept food stamp dollars, now called the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, stock a wider array of healthy food choices. ...
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This sounds like something Walmart would push.
I'm all for this. Back when food stamps began, they could only be used for real foods. WIC is quite restrictive, and it's fun to watch young moms puzzle over what they're allowed to purchase with WIC. This might be the best way to help nutrition.
But obama’s people are letting the slime use food stamps at strip clubs?
So many contradictions....so little time.
Enough is enough at some point. A century of this creating more and more poverty ought to have woken people up, right?
- Equal liability of all to work. Establishment of industrial armies, especially for agriculture.
- Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries; gradual abolition of all the distinction between town and country by a more equable distribution of the populace over the country. ...
As far as food inspection goes, I'd really love to be able to trust big food. Without government inspection and labeling, there would be no way to trust our food sources, except for the fortunate few who can get all locally sourced and high integrity choices.
The USDA is the one encouraging the production of low-nutrition foods in the first place. Same goes with destroying local food production.
And no, I don’t think federal government inspection and labeling is necessary either. Perhaps state governments should, if actually necessary.
Yeah, right. Let me know how that works out. Can't tear open and eat, or pop open and drink? Not going to go for it.
One day, an old friend of mine and I went to go eat lunch at the Publix sandwich deli. We were behind two ladies who used their SNAP/EBT to charge their subs. Later, as I was getting some other foodstuffs checking, they were in front of me at the cashier with a bunch of WICS items and presenting the certificates for the kiddies’ supplements.
Then after those exchanges, each put up a big bottle of wine on the counter and plopped down $20 cash to pay for it.
That’s exactly what SNAP, WICS etc. used for - pays for the things they need to eat, and leave them cash for liquor, smokes, lottos and whatever. Makes the cash they do have double or triple in effectiveness.
This has been my experience and observation as well. The ghetto queens in my neck of the woods drive around in leased Mercedes carting around 3, 4, 5 kids; the kids are in rags while mom is dressed to the nines sporting a Prada or Gucci handbag; and they have the gall to show up to charity events begging poor for school supplies while their wrists jangle with gold bracelets, and they have diamond-encrusted hoops in their ears.
Personal responsibility is dead.
I’ll agree that it would be better if state governments did the inspecting.
Here’s how you solve this problem. Open up grocery stores strictly for EBT folks and have ONLY healthy, non-junk foods. Their food stamps aren’t good anywhere else. Stop allowing these parasites to have cash. They won’t use it wisely.
Agree, but that in itself would ‘stigmatize them’ and damage their poor little damaged psyches.
Stigma is one of the main reason the government got away from actual ‘stamps’ and went to fake credit cards that could be swiped faster than a greased stick out of a cat’s butt without anyone actually seeing it. No stigma - just another ‘tax payer.’ Ha!
Further, these ‘stores’ probably would be empty until long about 11AM-12:00PM because it upsets them having to get up earlier than that.
I don’t think organic food is not the menu.
Your SNAP dollars still don’t stretch that far even with the mooted rule changes.
You confuse welfare cash payments with food benefit. They can be loaded on the same EBT card but the food benefit can only be used to buy food and drink.
It eliminates paper trail waste and its easier for the customer to swipe a purchase.
Store still gets paid minus the sales tax.
The goal was efficiency but overwhelmed by the removal of stigma.
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