How about we make food stamps only good for the purchase of rice and beans?
One can live a very healthy live on rice and beans.
No? Then you don’t give a crap about hunger, only taking from the haves to give to the have-nots.
It would have been better if the benefits were limited to basic foods from the beginning.
However, you will find the main resistance to any change to come from huge multinational and vertically integrated food producers and distributors, and retail chains, who would lose HUGE amounts of revenue if food types were restricted.
Going back to the basics simply won’t happen short of a world war or something.
They could supplement with shredded poultry downstream of Baraq’s wind turbines.