Narrowing down.
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I never knew the origin of food stamps. They were designed to be used to allow people to use up surplus crops.
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Food stamps were essentially currency. Right after high school I was young and poor, and I'd buy them at fifty cents on the dollar from folks who wanted cigarette and pop money.
Cindy makes a good point, but there should be some middle ground. People can't be living on sugary drinks alone.
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Food stamps were essentially currency. Right after high school I was young and poor, and I'd buy them at fifty cents on the dollar from folks who wanted cigarette and pop money.
Cindy makes a good point, but there should be some middle ground. People can't be living on sugary drinks alone.
@Mik said in Narrowing down.:
Cindy makes a good point, but there should be some middle ground. People can't be living on sugary drinks alone.
No, but we need to provide the alternatives first, find the middle ground first, before we start putting more restrictions on what can be purchased with food stamps. Not the other way around.
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The government can't provide healthy grocery stores in food desert locations. What we might look at is subsidizing grocery delivery for online shopping. Local stores already provide a SNAP-eligible set of products in their systems.
It would even be quite easy to provide suggested periodic delivery sets, taking into account individual likes and dislikes, along with recipes.
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The government can't provide healthy grocery stores in food desert locations. What we might look at is subsidizing grocery delivery for online shopping. Local stores already provide a SNAP-eligible set of products in their systems.
It would even be quite easy to provide suggested periodic delivery sets, taking into account individual likes and dislikes, along with recipes.
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Cindy +1
People on SNAP do not have adequate transportation generally nor enough money even if they did to access healthy food let alone for an entire month.
Anything leading to more autonomy would be better and likewise anything leading to less autonomy would be worse, imo.
SNAP at least for an individual is not enough money to feed one person. Add to that the fact there are limited ways to buy food.
You are not talking about a population generally who can hop in a car and drive to any store they choose at any time they like on any day of the week.
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Those are great ideas, @Mik
I'm sure the new administration is not going to be interested in them. -_-
@ShiroKuro said in Narrowing down.:
Those are great ideas, @Mik
I'm sure the new administration is not going to be interested in them. -_-
Based on what? There’s an emphasis on efficiency and the folds right into it. Don’t let personal bias get in the way of supporting a good idea.
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@ShiroKuro said in Narrowing down.:
Those are great ideas, @Mik
I'm sure the new administration is not going to be interested in them. -_-
Based on what? There’s an emphasis on efficiency and the folds right into it. Don’t let personal bias get in the way of supporting a good idea.
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Food deserts and the Robinson-Patman Act.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/the-mystery-of-food-deserts/ar-AA1v4dJA
