Texas lawmakers trying to stop SNAP users from buying junk food and fast food with benefits

[RennisDeynolds]

Why? And how would you even know ?

Snap is a whole ass card now, you need a pin # and everything to use it. Why are you watching them that closely ?

He could be a cashier or bagger, had to scan and bag all that shyt just to see them swipe

 

[Luke Cage]

That's some hating ass shyt. I never understood why someone cares what someone is buying with EBT

Yeah, like what difference does it make? They are supposed to use it to buy food. They bought food. Why we concern what kind of food they eating?
Also everybody knows the junk food usually cheaper, so this just gonna make them need more snap funds.

 

[Pressure]

Actually, no, junk food (chips, sodas, cookies, frozen meals, etc) has always been approved for Food Stamp/SNAP use. People have been buying steaks, ground beef, ribs, chicken, turkey, etc any meat in the grocery store available with SNAP benefits for decades since it used to be the booklets back in the 70s/80s.

I don't know why people act like it's a new phenomenon for SNAP users to eat steak and seafood, it counts as food by the USDA and there are no restrictions as to what people should be allowed to eat while receiving these benefits nor should there be because that be violating people's freedom to eat whatever they desire; I feel like a lot of people, especially Conservatives and Republicans still believe in that Ronald Reagan-era stigma of Food Stamps.

Now, fast food is a whole nother story. However, most states don't allow food stamps to be used for fast food unless it's a gas station or corner store that prepares cold subs and sandwiches or hot foods that are cold and can be reheated. You can't use SNAP benefits for fast food restaurants, so the few states or cities within that do are an anomaly.

People are being ahistorical. Thank you for stepping in to fix this before it grew legs.

 

[Pressure]

Also everybody knows the junk food usually cheaper, so this just gonna make them need more snap funds.

Ironically, junk food became more accessible during the Reagan/welfare queen era largely as a subsidy to convenience stores.

 

[BunchePark]

one thing that kinda grinds my gears is when I see someone buying hella steaks, lobster tails and crab legs on EBT.

when I see that kinda shyt, I know they are getting waaaaayyyyy too much assistance. fukk outta here.

That's green bruh


You can't eat all the food

 

[the cac mamba]

I never understood why someone cares what someone is buying with EBT

because someone who's on EBT is probably also on some form of medicaid or government-paid health. and it's pretty perverse that the state would pay for trash food that worsens their health, only to add more health and financial burden on the back end. is obesity not a huge problem in this country?

so i couldn't care less if they limit junk food EBT is supposed to be a supplement. people are free to spend their own money on soda and shyt

 

[east]

Ironically, junk food became more accessible during the Reagan/welfare queen era largely as a subsidy to convenience stores.

i'm assuming ur talmbout the moratorium on robinson-patman act enforcement? welfare for farmers has a lot to do with it too...

[Robert F.] Kennedy could run into resistance from Congress. His disdain for the refined oils made from certain plants — seed oils like canola, soy and corn — and the ultra-processed foods that contain them has alarmed Republicans including Senator Charles E. Grassley of Iowa, whose farmer constituents receive subsidies from the government to grow the plants that produce the oils.

Mr. Kennedy opposes the subsidies. Mr. Grassley publicly instructed him to “leave agricultural practice regulations to the proper agencies,” including the Agriculture Department. Mr. Kennedy said he agreed.

Last week, [Calley Means, an author and health care entrepreneur whose focus is nutrition and chronic disease,] was in Arizona, along with other Kennedy allies, to speak in favor of a “Make Arizona Healthy Again” bill that would ban certain chemicals from school lunch programs and prohibit candy, soda, chips and other junk foods from being purchased with the federal nutrition dollars formerly known as “food stamps.”

Formula, Fries and Froot Loops: Washington Bends to Kennedy’s ‘MAHA’ Agenda

Public health leaders are horrified by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s approach to measles, but government and industry are responding to him.

www.nytimes.com

You are definitely white.

cacs

he's done news interviews so he's one the few posters who's verified Black - any cac can post their token friend's hand in the verification thread, it's harder to fool a reporter in person lol

 

[Fresh]

that's some fvcked up sh1t

the ironic thing though is that I heard recently that Snap would start to be allowed at certain fast food restaurants

but I haven't researched it though

 

[Camammal]

The biggest food stamp recipients are white people anyways. They probably doing this because they want their flabby and sick people get in shape for a so called race war that they already losing anyways

Lmao hell no, everything these folks do is to punish and exclude black people and they will gut and sabotage the programs that benefit themselves to do it.

 

[Absolut]

Eating junk leads to becoming a strain on other services, like healthcare. They absolutely should refrain from enabling people becoming fat unhealthy fukks on the governments dime

 

[Ricky Fontaine]

one thing that kinda grinds my gears is when I see someone buying hella steaks, lobster tails and crab legs on EBT.

when I see that kinda shyt, I know they are getting waaaaayyyyy too much assistance. fukk outta here.

nikka hating on poor people

Quit your job and go get you a SNAP card if you think they got it so good crab ass nikka

 

[The Intergalactic Koala]

Dying on the hill, but there should be a surplus for alternatives like fruits, veggie products, and etc if we're going that far with stopping junk food from getting copped.

Like, if you want the state to be healthy, lower the price on the alternatives to allow folks to try something different from the fatty shyt. But lmao, that will never happen because junk food has addictive drugs within it, while the alts have ways to promote not eating like a fukking pig in slop.

 

[Left.A1]

nikkas living in food deserts with limited transportation and now the state wants to limit them from being able to go to the corner store because they don't have access to 12.99 Broccoli from Whole Foods Market…. And of course the c00ns of coli are right in alignment