Funny thing is 75% of shit in a store is "junk food". The healthy food is sometimes more expensive, so its instinctive to buy the cheaper "junk food" so that you can bring home more groceries. Also, egg prices keep going up you fat fucking Nazi.
They’ve tried this and failed miserably. Found it cost more money in the long run to regulate what is considered junk food. Maybe just let people have things that help them cope with being destitute. Besides, I thought he was anti regulation. This is a form of regulation.
Corn farmers grow way too much corn for standard consumption. Thus corn syrup as a sweetener in everything. You don't mess with the corn growers because you're going to mess with profits.
(See Ferengi rules of Acquisition and profits)
EBT/Food stamps always had restrictions on types of foods etc that could be chosen.
That aside, the question is why, all of a sudden, this is an issue. The fruits and vegetables that are at Walmart use Appel that many reject so they need an outlet?
How long will it be before I have to email Elon a bullet point email listing my meals and calorie counts for the week so he and Grok can be certain my paycheck is being spent "efficiently"
For a group of people who hate big gvmt, they sure want to be in everyone's business. Everyone knows eating healthy food is better. Processed foods are more affordable. Instead of policing what they eat, try giving them a living wage or providing more SNAP so they can afford the good stuff.
Not to mention, poor quality food has ALWAYS been cheaper than eating healthier options. So you don’t raise minimum wage, you are trying to dismantle worker’s rights, no housing security, no medical security and no food security to protect a move to have this kind of mandate. BS
I mean, not like he could raise the federal minimum wage, cut inflation, housing, and consumer costs, to, you know get people off of food stamps, but tiny hands Mango Mussolini doesnt give a shit about everyday Americans.
You eat what we allow you to eat, ok, or you go hungry. Believe me, when you take “our money” then you do as “we say”, that I can tell you, I am very bigly in charge now. 🤡 🙃
Yeah, they are hypocrites. They claim they want a small government and that they don't want the government telling them what to do but for everyone else, they want the government in people's business.
This is complicated because it requires they define “junk”. It is further complicated because a LOT of these are spent in store that don’t actually have fresh foods they can use it on. Also I recall quite the uproar when Michelle tried to make school lunches healthier 🫠
They only want to regulate the things that they don’t like! They want to regularly women’s reproduction and what can be purchased with EBT cards. They sure as Hell don’t want to regulate anything that has to do with white men.
They’ve tried banning steak in the past as well. Poor people are supposed to be miserable because God hates them, otherwise they’d be rich, God’s reward for having a good soul.
Conservatives have ALWAYS wanted to limit choices for people on public assistance. They believe the rich should have total control over the poor, and that the poor must be punished for being poor.
Sad thing is Junk food is all they can afford, 30 cent Ramen noodle soup, 1.25 box of Mac and cheese or 2 bucks for an Apple. I survived college on Ramen Noodles and tuna fish casserole
Fuck this!!! I buy really healthy foods because I cook at home. But if I want to buy some Ben and Jerry’s dairy free ice cream I damn should be able to. I thought they didn’t want big govt but yet this!!!
All life on Earth deserves a full warm belly every day. All life on Earth deserves to have a warm, dry, and safe place to sleep every night. The billionaire class and their millionaire minions own it to all of us and the planet itself, to make that happens. Period!
it doesnt, he literallycannot do that, plus hed be shooting himself in the foot considering hes an old man with heart issues and he only eats mcdonalds and drinks the worst soda known to man. though, i guess, since hes trying to become a dictator, it wouldnt apply to him anyways
It depends on what the Krasnov Administration considers junk food. But if they are talking, chips, cakes, etc. Think of the kid that wants something fun once in a while for their birthday, holiday, etc.
Will Honey be considered junk food because it is mostly sugar?
Not a Republican in any way but if I could help prevent folks eating and drinking a lot of harmful crap I would. They cost our society big bucks down the line for bad lifestyle as far as dietary intake goes. Seeing carts full of energy drinks and soda makes me gag
Just from the perspective of if I am helping to pay for folks food I want it to be good for them. And I hate (work in health care) disability and illness from bad stuff you do to yourself. Like the consequences of smoking. So not my biz you are right but I do care.
Can't confirm, the only meat i handle regularly is from poor or severely deteriorated people. But considering the unhealthy lifestyle and substance abuwe of most rich folks, i'd suggest excluding them from your diet unless truly desperate.
This in a country where fast food is one of the few accessible options (if not only) for many and salads cost significantly more than burgers and/or fries ...
It doesn’t however having the third Reich take up ranks in the United States 80 year’s after it was demolished doesn’t make sense either. Don’t get me started on the guy with the 15k chainsaw
Poor people have to eat cheap. Junk food is bought because that's what mass production has made cheap.
The only 2 solutions are make healthy food cheaper or make people not poor.
They want to take any kind of pleasure, even small ones, out of poor people's lives. After all, they view the poor as just lazily people mooching off the system.
So only rich people are allowed to be unhealthy? The poorest parts of America are food desserts where people can't get access to fresh food. Maybe try tackling that first.
If people don't have access to healthy food literally nothing will enable them to eat healthy. If they actually wanted people to be healthy they would be tackling the reasons they aren't. The whole point is to punish the poor it has nothing to do with health.
instead of making "unhealthy" food more expensive why not make "healthy" food less expensive and more accessible? a lot of people live in grocery deserts where you literally can't buy fresh produce or what there is is bad quality and can't be stored long before rotting.
Like all propaganda and conspiracy theories, there's a speck of truth surrounded by a bunch of nonsense. Usually, it's junk food is bad for you therefore buy these stupid supplements or outlaw this vaccine.
In this case, it's junk food is bad so let's screw the poor.
How absurd from a man who eats ketchup on steak and constantly eats fast food and has to wear a diaper because of his gastrointestinal problems. We'll spend their food stamps on junk food they have less food stamps for actual food so, poor people know that's foolish.
Of course, the GOP believes that all that public asstistance money is being spent on hohos, twinkies and potato chips by people of color in big cities when in fact all that public assistance money is being spent on hohos, twinkies and potato chips by white people in rural areas and small towns.
Oh! Make them buy all organic, non-gmo, fresh not frozen, locally sourced, superfood, “whatever other moniker is popular now” foods. Oh wait, they can’t afford that with the amount of benefits they have. Because cheap foods are processed foods.
"Healthy food is something poor people shouldn't have!" and "Healthy food is the only thing poor people should have!"
I'm starting to think they just don't like poor people tbh
y’all wanna know why my mom bought “junk food” when she had food stamps? we live in a rural area with only a walmart so there’s a lot less options and two of her younger kids are autistic. they are VERY PICKY about what they eat. i know there’s other kids like that. they’d rather the kids starve?
Well see they know about the concept of food deserts so they know this will indirectly starve poor people. And they like starving poor people because they will take about any job, under any conditions, just so they can get some food.
Bottled water is junk food? Steak is junk food?
I wonder if Hamburger & FF is junk food? All Trump EATS is Steak & McDonalds burgers. So he must see those as luxury meals. Beef is a Luxury , you poors can have chicken & hotdogs. Frickin Eggs are a luxury & steaks like $25 for 2. Breads $5 loaf..
By 2030 we will be all eating macaroni & tomatoes…well only if we still have tomatoes in 🇺🇸. Meatloaf won’t even be affordable —it’s a Luxury. You poors eat Kraft Mac n cheese & shut up! FOOD IS A LUXURY. Trump should drink some tap water out in rural NYS 🙄 jackass
Considering most food assistance programs already have restrictions on things like processed food, this is a lot of hot air that will equate to little or no difference, and it certainly won’t benefit anyone.
This is a bad take. Especially for people who rely on food stamps, there are a ton of barriers to getting "healthy" foods, including the much higher cost of them. Consider that many of these individuals are single working parents who are already stretched thin for time, and how few pleasures 1/
they can afford to give their children. Small treats make a hard life more bearable. Convenience foods allow parents to spend more time with their children. Many of those foods are also less affordable. When you have almost nothing, a candy bar is a huge spark of joy in your day.
Also obviously I meant that these convenience foods are "less expensive" not "less affordable," but I know this is the internet so I'll go ahead and make the correction so it's here.
Until your tax dollars are used to make nutritious food affordable and for education to teach people what good nutrition is, people will be buying junk food. Read “Nickel and Dimed” by Barbara Ehrenreich - she explains it well.
On the one hand, healthy food good. On the other hand, when you can buy a stack of frozen pizzas for less than it costs to get enough fresh produce to make an equal amount of meals out of, people are going to buy the pizzas far more than the veggies and fruits.
Funny, I thought they had the opposite position on junk food not so long ago?
Of course they want to be sure people in food deserts to go hungry all day if they don't have time to cook and clean while jumping through all the other hoops and getting to work at Wal-mart and all...
Funny thing is, we have no one to pick fruit or vegetables, and no one to help with the animals
They screwed the farmers up and over
And if course, eggs
The only thing that they will be able to find in the grocery store WILL BE JUNK FOOD!!!
What will RFK Jr. determine as junk food?
Ramen? Hot dogs? White bread?
Processed meat?
Although unhealthy, many family’s receiving Food assistance rely on these foods because of cost.
Trying to control the health of a population by restricting what the economically challenged can and cannot eat is bound to fail. It's purely punitive. Remember: whatever is wrong, it's the immigrants and the poor who are responsible.
I remember all the GOP pearl clutching that happened when Michelle Obama tried to make school lunches healthier for kids. “You can’t tell us what to feed our kids!”. I guess they forgot.
And they'll do it later as well. That's the beauty of doublethink: use it when it's convenient or the party demands it, set it aside when it's inconvenient or the party disallows it.
Oh boy! Can't wait to see all the "I'm an American" vids of people screaming in grocery stores being denied chips, chocolate bars and soda.
So now government is going to control what people eat?
So much for "Freedom"
Remember when New York tried banning sale of sodas over 16oz and the entire right screamed how it was a violation of rights and government telling you what to do?
They want to give you enough to buy 1.5 weeks worth of cheap food or 2 meals worth of healthy food. People on food support do not choose junk food because they are now full of money, they choose junk food because it gets more in their stomach.
I don't know from someone who professes to eat McD's on a daily basis what does he know about anything diet related. He's not exactly star of fitness himself who is he to say what anyone on supports eats.
My grandfather was told by his doctor to eat hard candies to keep up his calories when he couldn't eat protein because his liver were shot by taking too much Codein related medications because the doctor was giving him two types of medications with it in it.
We lived on McDonald's and pasta boxes when i was little because fresh food is expensive. Why buy an apple for a dollar when i could get actual food. When you're poor, you only have enough money for calories because if you lived on lettuce and tomatoes you'd starve.
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(See Ferengi rules of Acquisition and profits)
That aside, the question is why, all of a sudden, this is an issue. The fruits and vegetables that are at Walmart use Appel that many reject so they need an outlet?
Which one is it George?
- One box of Kraft Dinner can fill the bellies of 2-3 people.
- One tomato does not.
I'm old enough to remember the days when healthy whole foods were the cheapest type of foods to buy for your family.
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Oligarchs.
They’ve tried banning steak in the past as well. Poor people are supposed to be miserable because God hates them, otherwise they’d be rich, God’s reward for having a good soul.
Will Honey be considered junk food because it is mostly sugar?
A toddlers brain.
The only 2 solutions are make healthy food cheaper or make people not poor.
In this case, it's junk food is bad so let's screw the poor.
McDonald’s food 🙄
It's because eating healthy was a punishment the right wanted to use against the poor.
And healthy fresh food is much more expensive.
I'm starting to think they just don't like poor people tbh
I wonder if Hamburger & FF is junk food? All Trump EATS is Steak & McDonalds burgers. So he must see those as luxury meals. Beef is a Luxury , you poors can have chicken & hotdogs. Frickin Eggs are a luxury & steaks like $25 for 2. Breads $5 loaf..
https://thepoliticalinsider.com/what-are-the-odds-trump-will-survive/
Of course they want to be sure people in food deserts to go hungry all day if they don't have time to cook and clean while jumping through all the other hoops and getting to work at Wal-mart and all...
They screwed the farmers up and over
And if course, eggs
The only thing that they will be able to find in the grocery store WILL BE JUNK FOOD!!!
Ramen? Hot dogs? White bread?
Processed meat?
Although unhealthy, many family’s receiving Food assistance rely on these foods because of cost.
Whatever positives you're seeing are illusory.
#fracturedGOP
So now government is going to control what people eat?
So much for "Freedom"
Pepperidge Farm remembers.