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I am very aware of that. I should have used the " sarcasm" emoji.
Nonetheless this did not stop Conservative media from implying the nutritional guidelines for school lunches were all her doing. How dare government decide what a kid eats and all that.
Michele spent 8 years advocating better childhood nutrition and exercise and was hung out to dry for it , for political reasons that had nothing to do with nutrition/ physical activity.
Now that there is a republican in the WH it's okay to tell people what to eat.
I expect that had this sort of idea been floated while Obama was still president, we would see many of the same people who support it now decrying it as "government over-reach" and worse.
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And you can google the rest
google the rest of what?
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Basically canned food should not be the crutch of a healthy diet
'the crutch of a healthy diet'?
no idea what you're trying to say.
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Organic is not a farce, as studies show there is sharp difference between animals and grown fruit and veggies that use steroids and pesticides between those that don’t.
categorically wrong. it is an expensive farce followed by small-minded, delusional people.
Now, now, we all know people only spend food stamps on soda and lobster tail - I'm sure I read that somewhere on some screwball right-wing website. Reality be danged, of course.
Seriously, how does anybody think this is a good idea? It's more government inefficiency, adds another layer of complexity and potential kickbacks and screwups, and literally solves no problem whatsoever. And this is coming from the "ain't nobody gonna tell me what to do!" crowd, who is now apparently fine with the government telling people what they can eat... provided it's "somebody else" being affected, of course.
If Obama had proposed this, the righties would have been up in arms about how wasteful this idea would be, how insane it is to get the government into food distribution, and how there's probably some kickbacks to some cronies who would package and distribute the food. But the moment Trump the Orange proposes this dumb idea, righties forget their small government stance AND Trump's horrible track record and think it's the greatest idea ever cuz "it'll make those welfare bums stop eating soda and lobster tail" or some delusional nonsense.
You do realize that kids in schools have been fed Government food for years right? Peanut Butter, Cheese etc,etc. all bought and paid for by the USDA and Agg dept subsidies to farmers/producers to maintain prices.
Hard to miss considering how many kids are now obese.
•80% of SNAP recipients were employed at some time in the last 12 months
•Over 25% of recipients are disabled or elderly
•Approximately 44% of recipients currently work.
•60% of recipients with children currently work.
•90% of recipients with children worked in the past year
•1 in 4 children in the U.S have a parent participating in SNAP
Sure, there are certainly people who apply for SNAP and other forms of Welfare that abuse the system... But Reagan's stereotypical welfare queen is likely the outlier as opposed to the norm.
Again, I do think the system needs to be fixed... But those who want to do away with it altogether seem to be misguided as to who the majority are that are receiving assistance.
No one is telling anyone what they can eat. You're free to eat whatever, but if I'm going to be paying, then yes I get to have a say. I'm not buying poor people soda so they can fatten up and get diabetes, requiring yet another handout to fix their medical condition.
The story I read suggested the food boxes would contain a variety of foods including pasta and juice.
So we're going to reduce the incidence of diabetes by giving diabetics pasta and fruit juice?
I have IBS, and react badly to multiple foods. This means that most grocery store rewards programs and most weekly specials are useless to me, since I can't eat dairy or wheat, among (too many) other things. And I am borderline diabetic and have hypertension, so I have to watch the sugar and salt content of any processed food I buy. (I don't buy much, I make most things I eat from scratch.)
I don't need food assistance, but should I ever need assistance, I want to know that I can use the assistance to get what I need, not what some contractor has made a good deal on.
I have Crohn's disease. I cannot eat most foods. I eat mostly chicken, white rice (brown rice tears up my stomach), and mashed potatoes. Regular milk tears me up. I can drink organic milk though. Only difference I think is all the trace amount of antibiotics in the regular milk. Most antibiotics make me sick. I can't even eat a lot of fruit because it breaks me out with sores if I eat too many. There's a lot of people with food problems like this.
" Trump Budget Would Swap Food Stamps for ‘100% American’ Food Packages "
Sounds like WIC. I had to tour a WIC store and actually thought it was a pretty good program. They had all the good stuff and a lot of it was local. They had eggs, milk, cheese, dried beans, canned fish, iron rich cereal, vitamin C fruit/vegetable juice and so on.
Poorer people are often refrigeration-challenged - I have been at several different times - and perishables serve them poorly.
The story I read suggested the food boxes would contain a variety of foods including pasta and juice.
So we're going to reduce the incidence of diabetes by giving diabetics pasta and fruit juice?
No, but that's not the purpose of these food boxes.
The purpose of these boxes is to make sure that taxpayer's money is spent buying pasta and fruit juice from the really big food processing companies.
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