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Joey Wahoo

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One simple step we could take to help alleviate the obesity crisis...


...would be to make junk foods ineligible for purchase with food stamps.

The two camps that usually rise up in opposition to something as sensible as that are 1) the junk food industry and 2) well-intentioned folks who argue that doing so would be degrading to poor people, because it reduces their choices.

Meanwhile we get fatter and fatter, burdening the health care system and ruining the quality of life for a huge and growing segment of our population.

We already limit what can be purchased with WIC benefits. Imposing similar restrictions on food stamp (SNAP) purchases could be easily accomplished.

(In response to this post by 111Balz)

Posted: 10/19/2017 at 3:18PM



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