Coca-Cola makes $10 billion per year from Food Stamps

[Marener]

I can see you don't know the first thing about running a business. Having your products over rated by a govt entity in charge of dietary recommendations is a massive boost to your bottom line.

The government doesn’t rate food products. Almost no one follows government dietary recommendations.

My plate and the food pyramid is essentially the same thing, using colors instead of a pyramid.

They’re really not. The food pyramid overemphasized grains.

What do you think institutions base their menus on? Schools, hospitals, colleges, prisons????? Think for a change.

Prisons? Jesus you’re desperate.

Schools have to follow guidelines with their lunch program which were loosened by the Trump administration. Hospitals and colleges don’t have to do shit.

It’s absolutely idiotic to blame government guidelines when 90% of people don’t even meet them.

Americans do not meet federal dietary recommendations - PubMed

A longstanding goal of dietary surveillance has been to estimate the proportion of the population with intakes above or below a target, such as a recommended level of intake. However, until now, statistical methods for assessing the alignment of food intakes with recommendations have been...

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

 

[el midgetron]

Subsidizes Black Lives

 

[CrusaderFrank]

I suspect the figure is overblown for clicks but why the heck are sugary drinks even allowed to be purchased with EBT/SNAP?

And then taxpayer funded Medicaid pays to fix the poor's cavities.....We pay the "poor" to get fat, then pay even more to give them free medical care for their chosen obesity.

Food stamps should change from default accept to default deny. It shouldn't be "you can buy anything except XYX." Move to "You can't buy anything except ABC. Then make food manufacturers apply to qualify their products.

Everything the .gov touches turns out to be a grift.

Sugar should be regulated like tobacco or heroin and does way more damage than either

 

[Mac-7]

I sometimes shop at a Kroger near a "food desert" and the poor's are pushing shopping carts stacked to the top with chips, sodas, microwaveable garbage of all shapes and sizes, hardly a vegetable to be seen anywhere.

Hardly a BMI under 30 to be seen anywhere as well.

Frequently the woman weighs upward of 350 lbs and is using one of the store’s electric scooyers to run around loading up on junk food

 

[Mashmont]

Yet again, denigrating poor people and treating them like subhuman animals.

Let me tell you something mate. Generosity and compassion is not measured by volunteering OTHER people's money. You leftwingers can talk when you donate 10% of your OWN money to the "poor". If you aren't doing that, time to zip lip.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

I suspect the figure is overblown for clicks but why the heck are sugary drinks even allowed to be purchased with EBT/SNAP?

And then taxpayer funded Medicaid pays to fix the poor's cavities.....We pay the "poor" to get fat, then pay even more to give them free medical care for their chosen obesity.

Food stamps should change from default accept to default deny. It shouldn't be "you can buy anything except XYX." Move to "You can't buy anything except ABC. Then make food manufacturers apply to qualify their products.

Everything the .gov touches turns out to be a grift.

It's a bottom line force multiplier for several industries, especially food and Pharma

 

[Dragonlady]

Let me tell you something mate. Generosity and compassion is not measured by volunteering OTHER people's money. You leftwingers can talk when you donate 10% of your OWN money to the "poor". If you aren't doing that, time to zip lip.

If you’re paying federal income taxes, and you’re a middle class tax payer, you’re paying more than 10% of your income to federal benefits programs for the working poor via earned income credits, food stamps, and Section 8 housing assistance.

Smart nations makes their corporations pay workers a living wage. They also have government funded health care for everyone.

Americans give the wealthy wage subsidies via social food stamps and earned income credits. They refuse to provide universal health care for all. They they blame poor people for being poor, poorly nourished, and in poor health.

Time for you to get a ******* clue and learn about budget economics before spouting off your abject ignorance and stupidity, Bucko.

After 45 years of Conservative tax codes and labour laws, Americans are sick, broke and addicted. The economy has collapsed 3 times and is well on its way to a 4th major economic collapse.

Great job Republicans.

 

[JWBooth]

Sugar should be regulated like tobacco or heroin and does way more damage than either

Ending agricultural price supports for sugar would go a long way toward this.

 

[JWBooth]

Frequently the woman weighs upward of 350 lbs and is using one of the store’s electric scooyers to run around loading up on junk food

 

[SassyIrishLass]

I actually saw a couple using EBT yesterday and evidently the system prevents users from buying certain items. I smiled

 

[Thinker101]

I actually saw a couple using EBT yesterday and evidently the system prevents users from buying certain items. I smiled

Unfortunately, there are ways around the system.

 

[SassyIrishLass]

Unfortunately, there are ways around the system.

It didn't work for them. They needed to pay like 17 bucks and couldn't

 

[Dragonlady]

I actually saw a couple using EBT yesterday and evidently the system prevents users from buying certain items. I smiled

And yet neither you, nor any of the other MAGA Cultists posting here knew that. You all believed the lie that everyone in the USA drinking Coke, is using food stamps to buy it.

That’s why the rest of the world knows that Trump voters are morons. You’ll believe any lie they tell you.

 

[candycorn]

Yet when Michelle Obama was promoting nutritional standards in federally funded school lunches, the right vilified her.

It’s not about health, it’s about denigration of poor people.

True.

 

[candycorn]

Because she required more healthy vegetables?

You paranoid lunatics are so useless.

They never got over having a black man as President. No time is it more apparent than when they talk about Ms. Obama.

 

[SassyIrishLass]

And yet neither you, nor any of the other MAGA Cultists posting here knew that. You all believed the lie that everyone in the USA drinking Coke, is using food stamps to buy it.

That’s why the rest of the world knows that Trump voters are morons. You’ll believe any lie they tell you.

Well that's dumb. Why do you bother

 

[Thinker101]

And yet neither you, nor any of the other MAGA Cultists posting here knew that. You all believed the lie that everyone in the USA drinking Coke, is using food stamps to buy it.

That’s why the rest of the world knows that Trump voters are morons. You’ll believe any lie they tell you.

No kidding, everyone drinking Coke is using food stamps? How fricken stupid of you.

 

[candycorn]

School lunch programs are chronically underfunded and the Trump administration lowered health standards for them.

Remember when the GOP tried to categorize ketchup as a vegetable? It was actually relish but they they tried to float that.

 

[JWBooth]

 

[SassyIrishLass]

Remember when the GOP tried to categorize ketchup as a vegetable? It was actually relish but they they tried to float that.

Tomatoes are vegetables, possibly a fruit but a veggie. True fact