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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(132,524 posts) Tue Dec 30, 2025, 02:34 PM 3 hrs ago

SNAP bans on soda, candy and other foods take effect in five states Jan. 1

Starting Thursday, Americans in five states who get government help paying for groceries will see new restrictions on soda, candy and other foods they can buy with those benefits.

Indiana, Iowa, Nebraska, Utah and West Virginia are the first of at least 18 states to enact waivers prohibiting the purchase of certain foods through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP.

It’s part of a push by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins to urge states to strip foods regarded as unhealthy from the $100 billion federal program — long known as food stamps — that serves 42 million Americans.

“We cannot continue a system that forces taxpayers to fund programs that make people sick and then pay a second time to treat the illnesses those very programs help create,” Kennedy said in a statement in December.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/snap-bans-soda-candy-other-170914936.html

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SNAP bans on soda, candy and other foods take effect in five states Jan. 1 (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin 3 hrs ago OP

ugh, such a shitty move. These kinds of restrictions are meant to shame and punish and have nothing to do with health. WhiskeyGrinder 3 hrs ago #1

Shitty people make shitty moves. GoCubsGo 2 hrs ago #6

I wonder if Mountain Dew will survive? dem4decades 2 hrs ago #2

I'd always thought they were. underpants 2 hrs ago #3

You can't use WIC benefits for those items. GoCubsGo 2 hrs ago #4

Okay. My brother had SNAP but he said he could buy anything but smokes and booze. underpants 2 hrs ago #5

WhiskeyGrinder

(26,216 posts)

1. ugh, such a shitty move. These kinds of restrictions are meant to shame and punish and have nothing to do with health.

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Tue Dec 30, 2025, 02:37 PM

3 hrs ago

But there are folks on the right AND left who LOVE to be moral scolds about what people eat, and believe it's their business to police others.

GoCubsGo

(34,647 posts)

6. Shitty people make shitty moves.

Reply to WhiskeyGrinder (Reply #1)

Tue Dec 30, 2025, 03:42 PM

2 hrs ago

Yup. They have been trying this shit for decades. I remember seeing the putrid waste of oxygen who started the "Tea Party" pontificating on CNBC about how those who receive nutrition benefits "should just be given bags of beans and rice." No fruits and vegetables for you, let alone any sort of meat or the occasional dessert. Just beans and rice. day in and day out. That tells you all you need to know about these assholes.

dem4decades

(13,618 posts)

2. I wonder if Mountain Dew will survive?

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Tue Dec 30, 2025, 02:53 PM

2 hrs ago

underpants

(194,686 posts)

3. I'd always thought they were.

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Tue Dec 30, 2025, 02:55 PM

2 hrs ago

I’d bet the sofa and candy industries got that changed.

GoCubsGo

(34,647 posts)

4. You can't use WIC benefits for those items.

Reply to underpants (Reply #3)

Tue Dec 30, 2025, 03:35 PM

2 hrs ago

But, those are different from SNAP, which had few, if any, restrictions before now, if I'm not mistaken. I do recall various asshole Republicans trying to ban shrimp/seafood, steak, and other items they deemed as "luxuries." But, I don't recall if those ever went into effect.

underpants

(194,686 posts)

5. Okay. My brother had SNAP but he said he could buy anything but smokes and booze.

Reply to GoCubsGo (Reply #4)

Tue Dec 30, 2025, 03:40 PM

2 hrs ago

He’d quit drinking 20 years ago though.
I referred to it as WIC but that doesn't make sense because (thankfully) there was no kid involved.

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