'Shindig'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Getting poor people more access to a wider variety of food really doesn't seem like a problem to me. Not everbody considers meat, cheese, and eggs akin to cigarettes.
Wider variety sounds good. But this isn't a wider variety, it's extra money that can only be spent on specific things. And the things that it can be spent on are also the things that are already heavily represented in WIC and school lunches and other programs like that.
I'm watching Bones in HD. That was not a scene that needed the HD.
This doesn't surprise me - the original purpose of the food stamps program was to help the agriculture industry, nsm to feed poor people. This is just government cheese with a new logo.
Ahahaha! Everyone else is as scarred as me.
OK, the product placement for a movie is ANNOYING AS FUCK.
Yeah, I added that additional money for fresh produce would be good for producers and comsumers too.
And it IS wider variety. When you have more money for food you can get a wider variety of food. When you have more money for meat, you can get less fatty meat. It's more money for poor people to eat better. That's a good thing.
This doesn't surprise me - the original purpose of the food stamps program was to help the agriculture industry, nsm to feed poor people. This is just government cheese with a new logo.
Yeah, same with a lot of the foreign food aid, which has totally screwed up the agriculture (particularly dairy) industries in a lot of developing countries -- we produce too much dairy, give it to those countries as food aid, and the price of the milk reconstituted from American milk powder is so much cheaper than local milk that the local dairies end up going out of business, so that there's no chance of rebuilding the local agriculture to the point where they don't need food aid anymore.
OK, the product placement for a movie is ANNOYING AS FUCK.
Yeah, that was blatant and gross.
I enjoyed the product placement for the car on White Collar a couple of weeks ago. It was blatant, but amusing to me.
Yeah, it sounds more like government largesse to meat producers -- which is an industry whose costs are already incredibly distorted -- rather than nutritional aid. Protein is available through lots of sources other than meat.
This doesn't surprise me - the original purpose of the food stamps program was to help the agriculture industry, nsm to feed poor people.
Looks like the first one had a split: some stamps could be used for any food, some only for surplus.
When you've got too much food and hugry people you can address both those problems at once. Its pretty win-win, like cash for clunkers.
Half of U.S. children are going to be on foodstamps soon. Anyone who wants to lobby for further supplements should go for it.
The article isn't exactly without an agenda of its own. "Dumping food nobody wants" isn't exactly the only interpretation possible of what appears to be a combination of health concerns and people in a recession cutting back on more expensive foods. Not everybody considers all meat, dairy, eggs, and cheese akin to cigarettes as they are at the end of the article.