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Trump asked to fix Moochelle's lunch

Traveler

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There's really nothing that libs don't screw up.......that I can think of.

http://eagnews.org/nations-lunch-ladies-call-on-trump-to-fix-michelle-os-school-food-rules/
 

Mike

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It's a wonder those kids ain't eating nuthin but pork chops, fried chicken, chitlins, and collard greens...........They would have been much better off...............
 

Steve

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What is almost comical about this is the double standard..

In the Shopping Cart of a Food Stamp Household: Lots of Soda

The findings show that the No. 1 purchases by SNAP households are soft drinks, which accounted for 5 percent of the dollars they spent on food. The category of ‘sweetened beverages,’ which includes soft drinks, fruit juices, energy drinks and sweetened teas, accounted for almost 10 percent of the dollars they spent on food. “In this sense, SNAP is a multibillion-dollar taxpayer subsidy of the soda industry,” said Marion Nestle, a professor of nutrition, food studies and public health at New York University. “It’s pretty shocking.”

Take that ten percent and buy the children some nice school lunch food...

For years, dozens of cities, states and medical groups have urged changes to SNAP, or the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, to help improve nutrition among the 43 million poorest Americans who receive food stamps. Specifically, they have called for restrictions so that food stamps cannot be used to buy junk food or sugary soft drinks.

But the food and beverage industries have spent millions opposing such measures, and the U.S.D.A. has denied every request, saying that selectively banning certain foods would be unfair to food stamp users

Really?

why is it when folk spend their own money, MILK is first?
The report compared SNAP households and non-SNAP households. While those who used food stamps bought slightly more junk food and fewer vegetables, both SNAP and non-SNAP households bought ample amounts of sweetened drinks, candy, ice cream and potato chips. Among non-SNAP households, for example, soft drinks ranked second on the list of food purchases, behind milk.


So by their own reporting we could easily save 20% of the food stamp money..
The U.S.D.A. report found that milk, cheese, potato chips, beef, cold cereal and baked bread were among the top purchases for all households. It indicated that all Americans bought ample amounts of desserts, salty snacks, candy and other junk foods. But the SNAP households spent slightly less money on nutritious foods, including fruits and vegetables, beans, eggs, nuts and seeds.

Over all, the report found, SNAP households spent about 40 cents of every dollar at the grocery store on “basic items” like meat, fruits, vegetables, milk, eggs and bread. Another 40 cents of every dollar was spent on “cereal, prepared foods, dairy products, rice and beans.” Lastly, 20 cents of each dollar was spent on a broad category of junk foods that included “sweetened beverages, desserts, salty snacks, candy and sugar.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/13/well/eat/food-stamp-snap-soda.html?_r=0

Time for Trump to scrap the waste in food stamps to feed the children some decent food...



“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.”

if moochele really cared this would have been fixed..
 

Steve

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Hopefully someone will forward this article to trump so he can tweet it out so we can watch liberals heads explode..

Food Stamps: $1.3 Billion Spent on Junk Food, Soft Drinks, Says Study

Americans use food stamps to buy more than $600 million worth of “sweetened beverages,” and bought hundreds of millions more of junk food and sugary snacks, according to a report published by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA).

Overall, food stamps worth nearly $1.3 billion were spent on “sweetened drinks, desserts, salty snacks, candy, and sugar,” which accounted for about 20 cents of every dollar spent on food items purchased by 26.5 million households
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/01/15/food-stamps-billions-spent-junk-food/

by contrast..
The NSLP provided low-cost or free lunches to over 30.3 million children daily at a cost of nearly $12.6 billion.
so we could cut out the soda and increase the program by 1.3 billion.. wouldn't that enable school to offer a better meal to the children?
 

Tam

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Now if they could just figure out how much in food stamps were sold off to buy drugs, booze and cigarettes and use that to provide lunches they would have something.
 

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