Why SNAP allows soft drinks.

[Woodznutz]

Soft drinks contain calories, which USDA considers food. Also those who run the program likely recall quenching thirst with soda after exercise. I remember once downing three bottles of soda after a tennis match on a hot day. The problem is that today's youth sit on a couch in an air-conditioned house playing video games or surfing their smartphone and getting fatter by the minute.

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[Polishprince]

Vodka contains calories as well.

But you can't buy the beverage with snap.

 

[toobfreak]

Why SNAP allows soft drinks.​

SNAP allows soft drinks because people need fluids to live, and don't you dare tell me all SNAP recipients should be on bread and water alone. Whatever your feelings are for SNAP benefits or many of the people on them, but soft drinks are tasty, popular, and mostly water with a little flavor and carbonation added, dirt cheap compared to coffee and real fruit juice or other things, and if you want, many do not even have any sugar in them.

If you don't want your kid getting fat, likely the best thing is to just get his fat ass off the sofa playing with his cellphone out playing with the other kids.

 

[BothWings]

If it was the only thing available to a thirsty person at some venue or event, of course it should be covered. Just because it has some unhealthy less-than-ideal components doesn't mean it won't hydrate you.

 

[Woodznutz]

Vodka contains calories as well.

But you can't buy the beverage with snap.

I think that many find a way to.

 

[Woodznutz]

SNAP allows soft drinks because people need fluids to live, and don't you dare tell me all SNAP recipients should be on bread and water alone. Whatever your feelings are for SNAP benefits or many of the people on them, but soft drinks are tasty, popular, and mostly water with a little flavor and carbonation added, dirt cheap compared to coffee and real fruit juice or other things, and if you want, many do not even have any sugar in them.

If you don't want your kid getting fat, likely the best thing is to just get his fat ass off the sofa playing with his cellphone out playing with the other kids.

Most soft drinks are loaded with sugar (see link). Home brewed coffee is pretty cheap. SNAP recipients are famously unhealthy. Most health problems are directly related to diet.

 

[Darkwind]

SNAP allows soft drinks because people need fluids to live, and don't you dare tell me all SNAP recipients should be on bread and water alone. Whatever your feelings are for SNAP benefits or many of the people on them, but soft drinks are tasty, popular, and mostly water with a little flavor and carbonation added, dirt cheap compared to coffee and real fruit juice or other things, and if you want, many do not even have any sugar in them.

If you don't want your kid getting fat, likely the best thing is to just get his fat ass off the sofa playing with his cellphone out playing with the other kids.

Wow. How can you be that effin wrong?

Soft Drinks are pure, unadulterated sugar.

Rat poison in water is less toxic.

 

[toobfreak]

Most soft drinks are loaded with sugar

Only if you choose to buy them that way. So are you banning poor people from eating all sweetened food? No pop, no cake, no pie, no ice cream, no pastries, no deserts, no cookies, no nothing that might have sugar in it? How will you justify banning sugar-free cola? Maybe you just want a ******* swastikas on your sleeve?

Home brewed coffee is pretty cheap.

Sure, if you have the $1500 coffee machine to properly make it with. So no Starbucks neither?

SNAP recipients are famously unhealthy.

Maybe because Americans are already famously unhealthy in general. And maybe because SNAP recipients are on government healthcare.

Most health problems are directly related to diet.

Must be why so many health nuts drop dead of heart attacks on their way to the health food store.

 

[toobfreak]

Soft Drinks are pure, unadulterated sugar.

Bullshit. I drink colas all the time that are sugar free. Most everything out there has a regular and sugar-free version.

Sugar is really just a simple carbohydrate, so are you trying to ban all simple carbohydrates? Are you banning SNAP recipients from drinking sugar free cola? What about artificial flavor? Sport drinks? Energy drinks? Sweeten teas? Fruit punch? Lemonade? Sweetened coffee?

And why stop at sugar? What about banning them from consuming brown sugar, corn sweetener, corn syrup, dextrose, fructose, glucose, high-fructose corn syrup, honey, lactose, malt syrup, maltose, molasses, raw sugar, and sucrose? Go for it, man! How can you justify banning pop without banning the entire gamut of sweetened foodstuffs! Nothing but kale and spinach for the poor.

Now you have banned them from a large segment of the products out there, ready made stuff that poor and sick people depend on. Never mind what economic impact this would have on thousands of companies out there to lose all that business.

So lets limit SNAP people to only drinking plain tap water (there's a healthy item for you!), lemon water, lime water, and sparkling water--- never mind that citrus are expensive and come at a cost 10X what artificial cola-based products generally cost.

 

[Darkwind]

Bullshit. I drink colas all the time that are sugar free. Most everything out there has a regular and sugar-free version.

Sugar is really just a simple carbohydrate, so are you trying to ban all simple carbohydrates? Are you banning SNAP recipients from drinking sugar free cola? What about artificial flavor? Sport drinks? Energy drinks? Sweeten teas? Fruit punch? Lemonade? Sweetened coffee?

And why stop at sugar? What about banning them from consuming brown sugar, corn sweetener, corn syrup, dextrose, fructose, glucose, high-fructose corn syrup, honey, lactose, malt syrup, maltose, molasses, raw sugar, and sucrose? Go for it, man! How can you justify banning pop without banning the entire gamut of sweetened foodstuffs! Nothing but kale and spinach for the poor.

Now you have banned them from a large segment of the products out there, ready made stuff that poor and sick people depend on. Never mind what economic impact this would have on thousands of companies out there to lose all that business.

So lets limit SNAP people to only drinking plain tap water (there's a healthy item for you!), lemon water, lime water, and sparkling water--- never mind that citrus are expensive and come at a cost 10X what artificial cola-based products generally cost.

I think that sugars, the complex and not so, should be highly regulated and removed from the American diet.

Sugar is the single most addictive substance in the world and it, along with other carbohydrates, mainly high frutose corn syrup, are the single greatest cause of obesity, Diabetes, and our current health crisis.

You should do yourself a favor and cut it from your diet.

 

[initforme]

I think that many find a way to.

Makes life tolerable

 

[toobfreak]

You should do yourself a favor and cut it from your diet.

I eat very little sugar. Like salt, I have a bag of sugar in my cupboard so old I'd be afraid to use it now.

 

[Woodznutz]

Makes life tolerable

There are better ways.

 

[toobfreak]

There are better ways.

Who gets to decide that for others? You?

 

[Woodznutz]

Who gets to decide that for others? You?

Curse the darkness or light a candle. Your decision.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Wow. How can you be that effin wrong?

Soft Drinks are pure, unadulterated sugar.

Rat poison in water is less toxic.

I am diabetic so I drink soft drinks that have no caffeine, and no sugar, thus no calories. It's flavored water. In fact, the kind I buy at Walmart is cheaper than water if you believe it.

How can you be that effin wrong? Back at you!

 

[toobfreak]

Curse the darkness or light a candle. Your decision.

My decision? To allow freedom of individual choice this nation was founded on, while slowly encouraging better lifestyles and foods so that people naturally eat and live better, not by government force.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

I think that sugars, the complex and not so, should be highly regulated and removed from the American diet.

Sugar is the single most addictive substance in the world and it, along with other carbohydrates, mainly high frutose corn syrup, are the single greatest cause of obesity, Diabetes, and our current health crisis.

You should do yourself a favor and cut it from your diet.

Yet you cannot live without it. How do you resolve that conundrum? Nanny state politics are so socialist!

 

[new wave liberal]

Cut SNAP completely.

 

[Polishprince]

Sure, if you have the $1500 coffee machine to properly make it with. So no Starbucks neither?

I make coffee with a $20 Walmart brand Mr. Coffee machine and it tastes fine.

Starbucks, BTW, is crappy. You need to brew up some Chase and Sanborn.