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You’ve probably seen it at your nearby Save income store while you’re waiting in the checkout line. Live betterTM and you’ll find a family of four all obese, if not morbidly so, in front of you with a cart full of Dr. Thunder ( Walmart’s knock-off ) and Hot Pockets and other stuff like that.
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When the teller reports their act, they say “EBT.”
Then you realize that you have just supported their slow-burning death and the crime of their extremely fat children with a diverse mix of disgust, empathy, and helplessness.
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This trend is currently being quantified by one advocacy group.
via GoCoCo ( sheriff added ):
The use of the benefits of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program ( SNAP ) has become increasingly controversial. Critics claim that the plan may be “encouraging households to eat highly processed, bad bad meals” rather than providing them with clean options. One of the largest grocery stores in the country, one of which has Electronic Benefit Transfer ( EBT ) cards, which provide SNAP benefits, was the subject of a thorough investigation into these foods.
A dramatic health truth is revealed by our study of more than 13, 000 SNAP-EBT available products. The majority of the things that SNAP recipients you purchase are highly processed. Among the significant discoveries are…
Ultra-processed products account for 62 % of the EBT-eligible products studied…
Artificial flavorings are present in almost half ( 47 % ) of the products…
8 % of products contain additives, which are prohibited in California or in educational facilities…
Red Dye No. 138 is present in over 160 items. 3, which the FDA just outlawed, is
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Of course, one of the biggest factors in allowing this widespread human tragedy to unfold is the effect of major food activists in Washington ( and at the state level ), who pay politicians and legislators to include ultra-processed products produced by mega-corporations like Nestle, Coca-Cola, and others. within the EBT program.
These lobbyists frequently make racist accusations against anyone who objects as low as possible.
Diverse Fat Activists Are Paid to Tell Children About Nutrition for Corporate Profit
With a few policy changes that the new HHS Secretary RFK Jr. has enacted, some of which he has previously suggested, this conflict could have a significant impact on its resolution.
- Not a single penny more will be spent on the SNAP program until all processed foods are eliminated. EBT cards should only be able to purchase fruits, vegetables, meat, eggs, dairy, beans, and possibly whole grains.
- A complete overhaul of the USDA food guidance, which underpins all government nutrition programs, to highlight the advantages of whole versus processed foods.
- Send nutrition-focused re-education to every doctor who tries to become a Medicare or Medicaid provider. Students only receive one or two dozen hours of nutrition instruction in total over the course of four years at nearly every medical school in the country, which is a seriously underage population.
- a modification to the Medicaid incentive structure. Instead of focusing on improvements in metrics like body fat percentage or even subjective ones like reported quality of life, the effectiveness of medical treatment is currently measured by the number of medications the patient takes. The patient then obeys these metrics. The pharmaceutical industry is obviously benefitted by this perverse incentive structure, but it does nothing to significantly improve health outcomes.
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