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You may recall, the Obama Admin was hung out to dry for eliminating most junk food from all subsidized school lunch programs. Nothing at the Federal level prevented kids from bringing junk from home.
Michele Obama's project was to get kids moving to curb childhood obesity. That too was mocked by the Obama haters.
I understand the corn syrup producers have put that stuff in everything. We had a neighbor who sold that stuff by the tank car. He had a booming business. A fast food burger doodle opened not far from our house. We drove past it a couple years and finally decided to check it out. They even put sweetener in the bun. We threw it away.
It was sad to see what the parents and cafeteria ladies did to Michelle Obama. I thought it was the job of parents to teach the kids about nutrition. Looks like most just feed them what they like. FF and nuggets.
Years ago when the kids were in band I had to take food and work the food line when other bands were at our school for competition. Most moms brought donuts and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. they thought i was odd for bring carrots, celery, cucumbers.apples and pears. To their surprise that went first.
The kids who have gardens at school eat their veggies.
You don't define junk food, you define what is acceptable. Fresh meat, fish, vegetable, fruits etc. Anything canned or boxed you limit to vegetables, spaghetti, rice, flour etc. You also put a cost per pound limit on things, e.g. if you want beef you shouldn't be able to buy fillet Mignon unless you are getting good deal on it.
This is where I draw the line. No soda or other really useless junk BUT I don't like the punitive part of telling people what kind of meat they can buy. Few are going to buy fillet mignon anyway, but if, once a year, someone did to celebrate an anniversary or something, by all means, go for it.
I do not like punishing people for being poor and to make them suffer. I just want to stop the soda and other stuff that has hardly any nutritional value, stuff that makes people fat and sick. Food stamps should be for FOOD. As you mentioned above, acceptable food.
Heavy red districts that hover at the poverty line are many in Texas. Add to that the increase in democrats winning in Texas who would love to regulate all processed food out of the equation.
Of course if you do that, benifits would need to increase to cover the cost of fresh fruits, meats, and unprocessed ingredients. This is the slippery slope we always worry about with regulation of personal behaviors.
It is cheaper to eat meals prepared at home than it is to eat processed foods. Anyone who actually grocery shops with a budget can tell you that.
I'm for it as a concept, but I would need to see the details.
But I could be wrong. I was for drug testing welfare recipients and the costs vastly outweighed the gains, so I was wrong on that.
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