Barron’s
Stocks in packaged-food companies have been under pressure in the past few days after President-elect Donald Trump nominated Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a well-known critic of Big Food’s influence on government, to lead the Department of Health and Human Services.
Among the actions laid out in his “Make America Healthy Again” plan, Kennedy said he would stop allowing beneficiaries of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program to use food stamps to buy soda or processed foods that are widely considered by nutritionists to be unhealthy. More
A lot of SNAP recipients buy cases of soda and then sell it for 50 cents on the dollar, they won’t be happy.
Winning! Go Bobby!
This is all well and good but Biden has begun his attempt to ignite a nuclear war with Russia so all may be moot.
Jan 20 cannot get here fast enough.
“Stocks in packaged-food companies have been under pressure in the past few days after President-elect Donald Trump nominated Robert F. Kennedy Jr.,”
The drug companies, specifically Pfizer and Moderna, as well as all facets of the healthcare industry, have all gotten a haircut because of RFK Jr. and what it wants to do. The general consensus is,”There is a new sheriff in town, the gravy train ends now”.
In looking at the great selections Trump has made, I can’t help but wonder how dizzy-eyed they will be once they tear the engine apart. Between the border, the sorry state of our military, and all the out-of-control apparatchiks, both in the Pentagon and in the intelligence agencies, these guys should get hazard pay.
Oh, and Mr. President, please allow Rand Paul to audit the fed; he wants to do it, you want him to do it, and well want him to do it.
Makes sense to me.
How about we END ALL government welfare programs – for individuals AND for businesses and nations? Let the private voluntary charities hand out whatever they wish. Focus on the subsidies, etc. that are funding these horrible companies and their products.
I don’t know how many times I’ve stood in the line at the grocery store and watched as someone buys all the treats & goodies, except for alcohol, and then they whip out the EBT card.
Funny, they always seem to have the cash for the alcohol.
This will change lives.
And just like that, RFK Jr is a racist.
Those “packaged food companies” are going to have to come with ways to offer broccoli, carrots and other healthy “treats” in a format SNAP users will actually seek out.
I expect these innovations to be a benefit to us all. I know I’ll object a lot less to eating my vegetables if they were more palatable.
That or they’ll find ways to exempt various “bug” based products for SNAP recipients consume. Probably feed organic waste to some creepie crawls then claim their all natural so some HHS bureaucrat gladly signs off (probably after securing a place on their board or consulting gig).
Sack of beans, sack of peas, govt cheese and they can drink water. If they want meat, it’s under every rock I turn over. If you don’t like that meat, I’m seeing Help Wanted signs everywhere I look. The kids and I eat a lot of beans and rice, it’s good. There are a heck of a lot of ways it can be prepared. I make a kettle of soup every couple weeks and it’s never the same twice. It’s good, and it’s good for you.
I caught people in my alley once who had used their EBT cards at the nearby Walgreens to purchase 12 packs of soda which they were cracking open and pouring out to return the empties to obtain cash.
Beyond informing them that they were blithering idiots there was
little I could do as they weren’t breaking any laws other than making my alley a sticky mess.
Great that people will be eating healthier but…
How much Listeria and E-coli will be in the food considering the type of folks packaging the products
I pride myself in eating healthy, grow a garden, keep chickens, before I got too old to chase it, fished and hunted.
It totally chaps my ass to see the hippos and their three kids belly up to the bar on my tab.
I’ll spring for essentials, milk, cheese, eggs, rice, pasta, baloney, bread (would rather they baked their own like me), fresh veggies.
All that crap in a box or bag just pisses me off. Don’t care if you ruin your health, I just don’t want to pay for it.
Then I have to pay for the health bills too.
Push two buggies out full, load it up in an Escalade.
At one time blacks prided themselves on the make do to eat, now they eat higher on the hog than I can and I end up paying for it, twice.
Pendulums do swing, eh?
Ya’ll forgot monthly drug testing. That would cut the number of recipients as well.
Six states (the usual suspects) also have what the USDA calls their “Restaurant Meals Program” for qualified EBT users. I looked at what the qualifications are and they do make sense, except the very broad category for government workers who are on a permanent disability retirement. How many, I wonder, are on a permanent disability because of morbid obesity? That’s how Medicare (Medicaid) payed for all those “scooters”, remember that? Nearly 100% of people I see using those scooters are unable to walk because of their weight (and the cascade of preventable illnesses associated with it).
Benjamin Franklin famously stated the best way to help the poor was to make them uncomfortable in their poverty; to either lead them or drive them out of it. There are too many generations of Americans who see nothing wrong — and quite a bit good — in living off their fellow Americans.
When I was a young child, my dad was laid off for a time from his logging job with 8 mouths to feed. I remember what help the government gave us: a small food box, consisting of dried beans, generic powdered mild, generic cheddar cheese, rice and generic peanut butter. I think it was labeled with “USDA” on everything. Back then, the gov’t didn’t want you to “blend in” with the gainfully employed population as EBT users do today.
Abigail, I remember the Peanut Butter came in big shiny cans and upon opening it you had to stir it up to reincorporate the oils that had separated to the top.
My sister and I ate a lot of that stuff you mentioned.
Mom used to make a hot cocoa mix with the powdered milk by mixing bakers cocoa and sugar with it.