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Should we restrict food stamps to bulk staples and basic ingredients?

Should food stamps only be redeemable for bulk staples and basic ingredients?

  • Yes

    Votes: 31 52.5%
  • No

    Votes: 28 47.5%

  • Total voters
    59
Not really true. Healthy food is typically expensive. I am trying to think of what food is both healthy and cheap. Oatmeal. Um what else? Even things that used to be inexpensive are not anymore. My mother used to buy, beef liver and kidneys by the 5 lb package. Half were fed to our dogs and the rest was for me and my siblings. If you can find them at all, these items are not cheap any longer. Fish used to be inexpensive. Now the fish stocks are decimated.

How about demanding that legislators stop subsidizing unwholesome agricultural products so that they are not a cheap alternative to healthy food. Use those savings to subsidize healthy eating programs.

I don't know how you even wound up on a thread this ancient, but you just responded to a poster who was banned a year ago, on a three-year-old thread. I don't think he's going to read it. Also, necroing a thread that might as well be from the Victorian era in internet time is frowned upon.
 
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Cut out junk food (i.e. bakery items, soda, candy, chips, cookies, etc.) and leave the rest alone.
 
Just remove the whole program.

Food for the revolution!
 
I don't know how you even wound up on a thread this ancient, but you just responded to a poster who was banned a year ago, on a three-year-old thread. I don't think he's going to read it. Also, necroing a thread that might as well be from the Victorian era in internet time is frowned upon.

My bad. "Neomalthusian" mentioned this thread in a current thread. I did not notice how old it is.
 
No snack or bakery or soda type items. Those on snap should have to pass drug tests and basic health requirments to stay on the system too...
 
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