Because if it’s bad, it’s bad for everybody. Buying food using SNAP benefits doesn’t magically transform it into something unhealthy. Given that’s the case, we should just ban soda and candy for everybody. But, that’s not the proposal. Presumably, people with more money have the self-control to make informed, rational decisions about whether to buy it? Not like those poors, who can’t be trusted not to blow all of their limited funds on junk food. (<-- There it is. There’s the shitting on the poor part.)
Not like those poors, who can’t be trusted not to blow all of their limited funds on junk food. (<-- There it is. There’s the shitting on the poor part.)
This dramatically undervalues the predatory practices of snack food companies, and redirects the blame. This is a problem solved by regulation, but the people that most need to be protected by those regulations are the poor, who are targeted for exploitation by the companies producing cheap, processed “foods.”
RFK is a dangerous idiot, and his handful of seemingly okay policy ideas only exist to distract from the harm that the administration, he is part of, is doing. This is one of those policies. It will never be anything more than a headline in any meaningful way.
There seems to be some correlation between cavities and children in low income homes. There is likely a number of factors to this, but junk food I believe seems to be one of them.
However, maybe more to your point, the issue is also accessibility to healthy foods at reasonable prices. Additionally, likely parent education about how fucking awful soda and candy is.
Because if it’s bad, it’s bad for everybody. Buying food using SNAP benefits doesn’t magically transform it into something unhealthy. Given that’s the case, we should just ban soda and candy for everybody. But, that’s not the proposal. Presumably, people with more money have the self-control to make informed, rational decisions about whether to buy it? Not like those poors, who can’t be trusted not to blow all of their limited funds on junk food. (<-- There it is. There’s the shitting on the poor part.)
This dramatically undervalues the predatory practices of snack food companies, and redirects the blame. This is a problem solved by regulation, but the people that most need to be protected by those regulations are the poor, who are targeted for exploitation by the companies producing cheap, processed “foods.”
RFK is a dangerous idiot, and his handful of seemingly okay policy ideas only exist to distract from the harm that the administration, he is part of, is doing. This is one of those policies. It will never be anything more than a headline in any meaningful way.
There seems to be some correlation between cavities and children in low income homes. There is likely a number of factors to this, but junk food I believe seems to be one of them.
https://www.cdc.gov/oral-health/php/2024-oral-health-surveillance-report/selected-findings.html
However, maybe more to your point, the issue is also accessibility to healthy foods at reasonable prices. Additionally, likely parent education about how fucking awful soda and candy is.
If that’s the issue, banning soda and candy for everybody would also improve things for poor kids.