Around 23million households receive around $256 in food stamps every month

[superbeets]

[h=1]Soda is top of the shopping list for families on food stamps who spend ONE FIFTH of their allowance on junk foods[/h]

• The top single purchase made by families on food stamps is soda drinks
• America's poorest households also spend 20 cents in every dollar on junk food
• Forty cents are spent on basics such as cheese, milk, cereals and beef
• Experts point to findings as one of the causes of America's obesity crisis
• They are calling for soda and junk food to be exempt from food stamps program
• But candy and beverage industries have teamed up to lobby against move

By HANNAH PARRY FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 15:17, 15 January 2017 | UPDATED: 18:23, 15 January 2017

 

[superbeets]

Food stamps are a last resort for millions of low income families across America who struggle to put food on the table.
So it may come as a surprise that the top purchase made by food stamps is not food at all; it's soda.
Soda accounts for five percent of every dollar spent in stamps while a whopping 20 percent is spent on junk food that includes 'sweetened beverages, desserts, salty snacks, candy and sugar'.

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Soda (stock image) is top of the shopping list for families on food stamps who spend one fifth of their allowance on junk foods

The United States Department of Agriculture, which oversees the $74billion food stamp program SNAP, found that dairy and processed foods were among the top purchases, the New York Times reports.
Ten cents in every dollar were spent on sweetened beverages which also include juices and energy drinks. With an average family on food stamps receiving around $256, that could mean they could buy 50 cans of soda every month.

 

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While healthy foods such as fruits and vegetables, beans, eggs, nuts and seeds were lower down on the list.
The report also noted that families on food stamps typically bought more junk food than those paying for groceries themselves.
For example, among people not on food stamps, milk was the top purchase, followed by soft drinks in second.

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Around 23million households receive around $256 in food stamps every month (pictured is an Illinois Link card, an electronic debit-like card used in place of the traditional food stamp)

Many health experts have pointed to the findings as one of the causes of America's burgeoning obesity crisis.
They are now demanding more restrictions on food stamp purchases, so that tax payer dollars are no longer paying for unhealthy food and drinks.
David Ludwig, the director of the New Balance Foundation Obesity Prevention Center at Boston Children's Hospital, said that other government programs such as e the national school lunch program have strict nutrition standards, so there was no reason they couldn't be implemented for SNAP.
'No one is suggesting poor people can't choose what they want to eat,' he said. 'But we're saying let's not use government benefits to pay for foods that are demonstrably going to undermine public health.'
He added that recent evidence had highlighted sugary drinks as one of the most harmful types of unhealthy food, yet soda 'tops the list of reimbursed products in SNAP.'
Around 23million households receive around $256 in food stamps every month.

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Several states have been fighting to restrict sugary drinks and junk food from food stamps (an old stamp from 1995)

Several states have been fighting to restrict sugary drinks and junk food from food stamps.

 

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Maine, Minnesota and New York City have all requested to remove the items but were denied by USDA.
The agency said it would consider granting permission for a state or citywide restriction on condition it conducted 'a rigorous pilot study' and also offered food stamp recipients the ability to opt out of the soda restrictions.
'We'd want rigorous evaluation to see what is the impact of such a policy,' he said.
The candy and beverage industries, inlcuding PepsiCo, Coca-Cola and Kraft Foods, have previously banded together to oppose restrictions on food stamps.
The government has tried to promote healthier options on food stamps by incentivizing fruits and vegetables.
But a 2014 study by Stanford researchers found that the incentive program would not significantly affect obesity rates, while banning sugary drinks from SNAP 'would be expected to significantly reduce obesity prevalence and Type 2 diabetes incidence, particularly among ages 18 to 65 and some racial and ethnic minorities.'
The report was based on data from a nationwide grocery chain on items bought in 2011.

 

[superbeets]

[h=3]WHAT ARE FOOD STAMPS SPENT ON BY THE DOLLAR?[/h]Five cents on soda
15 cents on junk food and sweetened drinks excluding soda
40 cents of basics such as milk, cheese, and meat
40 cents on cereals and other grains such as, rice, beans and prepared foods

 

[superbeets]

Hamburgler, Dixie, United States, 3 hours ago
But as I understood it, FLOTUS made family nutrition her First Lady platform. And I saw CNN/MSNBC/ABC boast of her smashing successes. But now I read this. Did those networks misrepresent the truth??

 

[fletchisrhsm]

If you're going to start legislating what someone can and can't buy in terms of food just don't offer the program anymore. Always amazes me when Republicans or conservatives ask for more control or regulation over something. Kind of like the drug testing of welfare recipients.

 

[ScottL]

Some people are working very hard and just can't make it:
[h=1]20/20 ABC January 13, 2017 My Reality: A Hidden America[/h]

 

[Greenbacks]

 

[NFLTrends]

If you're going to start legislating what someone can and can't buy in terms of food just don't offer the program anymore. Always amazes me when Republicans or conservatives ask for more control or regulation over something. Kind of like the drug testing of welfare recipients.

If you're going to start legislating what someone can and can't buy in terms of Health Insurance just don't offer the Obamacare program anymore. Always amazes me when Republicans or conservatives ask for more control or regulation over something. Kind of like the income testing of health insurance recipients.


If you're going to start legislating what someone can and can't buy in terms of SNAP just don't offer the program anymore. Always amazes me when Republicans or conservatives ask for more control or regulation over something. Kind of like the drug testing of welfare recipients.

And lots more where those came from lol.

 

[GasMan]

If you're going to start legislating what someone can and can't buy in terms of food just don't offer the program anymore. Always amazes me when Republicans or conservatives ask for more control or regulation over something. Kind of like the drug testing of welfare recipients.

Amazing that you think it's ok to force me to pay for some other lazy fucktards shit and then not be able to question the manner in which it is spent.

 

[fletchisrhsm]

If you're going to start legislating what someone can and can't buy in terms of Health Insurance just don't offer the Obamacare program anymore. Always amazes me when Republicans or conservatives ask for more control or regulation over something. Kind of like the income testing of health insurance recipients.


If you're going to start legislating what someone can and can't buy in terms of SNAP just don't offer the program anymore. Always amazes me when Republicans or conservatives ask for more control or regulation over something. Kind of like the drug testing of welfare recipients.

And lots more where those came from lol.

Ummm yhea, im for the abolishing Obama Care. But im not for replacing it either. I liked the way it was before 2008

 

[fletchisrhsm]

Amazing that you think it's ok to force me to pay for some other lazy fucktards shit and then not be able to question the manner in which it is spent.

What part of not offering the program anymore DIDNT YOU GRASP? Where did you glean from what i wrote that i thought it was ok to force you to pay anything? You triggered? Seriously, what part of my two sentences ever said anything of the sort that would lead you in this direction? This is what happens when you play the checking line and cant skate all too well and the opponents use you head as a battering ram off the boards

 

[NFLTrends]

Ummm yhea, im for the abolishing Obama Care. But im not for replacing it either. I liked the way it was before 2008

Food stamps should be used to purchase necessities, not luxury type, wasteful and unhealthy food items.

Go down to a 24hour convenience store that accepts food stamps in a not-so-good section of town 10 minutes before midnight on the last day of the month, and look how many people are waiting for their cards to get loaded. Then go in the store and watch what they are buying. Bags of chips, sodas, donuts, candy, etc... and from what I have seen, none of them spend less than $40 in that one trip..... While on the other side... If they spent that $40 on REAL food, they could prepare probobly 4-6 healthy meals for themselves or their family

 

[GasMan]

What part of not offering the program anymore DIDNT YOU GRASP? Where did you glean from what i wrote that i thought it was ok to force you to pay anything? You triggered? Seriously, what part of my two sentences ever said anything of the sort that would lead you in this direction? This is what happens when you play the checking line and cant skate all too well and the opponents use you head as a battering ram off the boards

Shut up scrub

 

[Greenbacks]

Ummm yhea, im for the abolishing Obama Care. But im not for replacing it either. I liked the way it was before 2008

The Guesser sent this guy over to the politics forum to fight his Lib battles.

You`re outnumbered fletch

 

[fletchisrhsm]

Food stamps should be used to purchase necessities, not luxury type, wasteful and unhealthy food items.

Go down to a 24hour convenience store that accepts food stamps in a not-so-good section of town 10 minutes before midnight on the last day of the month, and look how many people are waiting for their cards to get loaded. Then go in the store and watch what they are buying. Bags of chips, sodas, donuts, candy, etc... and from what I have seen, none of them spend less than $40 in that one trip..... While on the other side... If they spent that $40 on REAL food, they could prepare probobly 4-6 healthy meals for themselves or their family

Yes, that would make sense. They are poor so not making good life choices kind of follows them. Not condoning nor disagreeing your example. Just not real shocked.

 

[fletchisrhsm]

The Guesser sent this guy over to the politics forum to fight his Lib battles.

You`re outnumbered fletch

Bring it muthafucaaaa

 

[fletchisrhsm]

The Guesser sent this guy over to the politics forum to fight his Lib battles.

You`re outnumbered fletch

Never heard of you. And the Rangers suck cock