Nebraska to ban food stamps from covering soda

Justified. Soda is garbage, sugar overload. Be healthier Poors

I’m a lib and I can back this 100%. there is good in the rfk movement, mixed in with a lot of bad.

But America’s obesity problem is an epidemic. I feel very privileged to be fit and in an environment where I am around healthy people and being active and eating healthy is the norm. Many in the US are not so lucky: don’t have good education about health, don’t have access to healthy food, and are getting taken advantage of by big food processors that make their food intentionally addictive.

Food stamps should be like the WIC program where recipients can only get the exactly specified nutritious foods- dozen eggs, gallon low fat milk, etc.

As long as they don't force kids to eat healthy food in schools like Michele Obama wanted...

I'm all for legislation like this.

LOL.

The corn husker state does know corn is used in pop? Won't this hurt the farmers?

If congress adds a work or volunteer requirement for SNAP benefits, can people dig ditches and then fill them back in? I propose starting a charity where volunteers sit in a chair to watch wet paint to make sure it's drying properly...

Yep

This is a good thing. Kennedy is a whack job but actually has done some good - restricting what SNAP recipients can buy, looking at food additives, etc.

If he does look at school lunches, as the Obama administration did, the MAGA sheep will be rejoicing and starting stupid threads here that have stupid acronyms like “MAHA.” BTW, in medical parlance, MAHA means microangiopathic hemolytic anemia, a condition that can be serious and/or fatal.

Isn't that funny.

But a broken clock like RFK can be right twice a day.

Interesting 180. I am old enough to remember……

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Three days, two breakout stars and one Big Gulp: Eight takeaways from CPAC

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Conservatives Hate the Soda Ban, but They Love Their Diet Coke

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The notoriously oddball but actually pretty accurate surveyors at Public Policy Polling are out with another one of their headline-grabbing polls today, with questions set on "Food issues polarizing America" — you know, Chik-...

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https://thehill.com/polls/116659-the-hill-poll-dems-twice-as-likely-to-back-big-gulp-soda-ban/

A backwards clock is right 4 times a day. 🤯

Let's also ban diet coke and McDonalds from the oval office. Let's use our taxpayer dollars to MAHA.

The ban is good but it's funny that "republicans" are now OK with the government telling people what they can and can't do. I hope none of them ever fly a "Don't Tread on Me" flag.

Let's also ban diet coke and McDonalds from the oval office. Our taxpayer dollars are paying for it.

Learn English, please.

You do know that misuse of the English language killed poor little grandma, right?

"Let's eat Grandma"

"Let's eat, Grandma"

See the difference? Probably not because you're not the sharpest knife in the drawer.

People consider me liberal (I'm moderate) but I agree with this.

I had a situation about 30 years ago when I was in grad school and I had a wife, two kids and a house. We were scraping by for about a year. I put together 98 cents to buy a half gallon of ice cream.

In front of me at the grocery store was a guy with food stamps and cash buying beer and junk food- candy, chips, etc.

I was mad. I could have probably gotten food stamps but we were able to do it on our own and we "sacrificed" junk food and alcohol.

I agree!

The persons receiving taxpayer funded benefits should be allowed to spend that money any way they want to.

If they want to spend it on smokes, vapes, or alcohol, then they should be allowed to.

Who are we to tell those people how to spend the money that we are giving them?

Dumb.

Creates a black market.

LOL, its the same thing. So wealthy people (98%) can eat unhealthy food but poor people have to have healthy eating legislated? I know why people feel this way, but it feels wrong to me. I get no cigs, alcohol etc... But soda at least has water and carbs. An occasional soda is not heroin. Let me eat what they want.

I don't begrudge those on food stamps for buying soda, their lives are already challenging enough without judgment from control-freak Republicans, who likely spend $20 on breakfast each day.

This isn't about promoting healthy eating, it's about demoralizing the working class. "Give up your minor luxuries and jump through our hoops poors!"

Why not impose restrictions on everyone? The truth is that if you're wealthy enough, they don't care about your choices.