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You are right. It doesnt. My point is, if they are enacting an anti-obesety law that should include Mcdonalds and the like. IMHOfoodstamp don't cover hot meal.
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You are right. It doesnt. My point is, if they are enacting an anti-obesety law that should include Mcdonalds and the like. IMHOfoodstamp don't cover hot meal.
Removing sugary drinks from the food stamps program will not help. They will find other way. The best way is to have government to order food industry to change their habits with the crap they put in the foods and have FDA keep a close eye with them.
Another thing to add, organic and healthy food is generally too expensive for poor people to able to afford which is why they go for cheap, unhealthy and processed foods to survive. That is why lot of poor people are obese while many rich people are thinner because they can afford it while we can't.
The cafeteria at my work now limit one taco per child when before they could get two tacos due to the obesity problem. Poor kids were complaining that they were hungry but we told them to eat their side of fruits and veggies if they were so hungry! I cant blame them cuz I love tacos and would eat 5 or 6 a setting if I could get away with it.
I saw a commercial (I forget by which company) that advertised "two tacos as an addition to your meal." Eh? I remember when two tacos WAS a meal!
Says something about our obesity problem, doesn't it? :P
My boys eat breakfast and lunch at school (both in high school)....still they come home "starving"....and can't hardly wait for dinner.....so I don't feel they get very much food at school. They play all sports, and go to the gym 3 times a week also. Always outside doing something sports related. So they are not fat at all!....I think most kids just come home, snack, eat dinner, and watch TV or play video games....
I saw a commercial (I forget by which company) that advertised "two tacos as an addition to your meal." Eh? I remember when two tacos WAS a meal!
Well, wouldn't it be ideal if they were to lower the property taxes among the local farmers? If they do this, they may be able to provide fruits and vegetables at a better price for the poor. Also, they need to make changes on how much should be imported and exported in these places.
In Alabama, K-12 students are not allowed to have carbonated beverages, including sugary and diet soda during lunch, otherwise school district would lose the state funding if not followed.
No, that's not what he was saying.
He said that removing sugary soda from food stamp isn't going be helpful.
Well, wouldn't it be ideal if they were to lower the property taxes among the local farmers? If they do this, they may be able to provide fruits and vegetables at a better price for the poor. Also, they need to make changes on how much should be imported and exported in these places.
Maybe better to educate people regarding nutrition than to ban sales of some foods, snacks or treats. Growing up in the deep south, we ate lots of starch because it was easy to grow and cheap to buy. Healthy? No. As our area was industrialized we got more money. Did we get better food - yes. Also more "co-cola". Many families still chose to eat starchy foods and chug cokes. It was what we were used to. Beans and fried potatoes and corn, fried squash and coke.
What I am trying to convey is that education is better than bans.
Poor people want what others have. Even in the depression people would still buy a coke. Poor often means uneducated or poorly educated. There are also choices, if you grew up eating a certain sort of food, you still want it, but a soda makes it even better.
Oddly, before colas were common every day drinks rather than a treat, we made do with Southern sweet tea. It tastes like tea syrup. The really poor kids had koolaid. They really wanted cokes. When they got money, they bought them.
Besides, they should have it if they want it. Big whoop. The Prohibition did not work either. Saying no is often a red flag to want it more.
Eh, jmo.
Souggy - I agree that healthy, unadulterated food should be affordable to everyone.
Schools should educate about nutrition by both book and preparation, like the old home ec. days. That way kids would learn what to do with the good foods once they have them and to better manage monies.