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Diving Briefs:
- The Republican state prohibits consumers to use government food support benefits for candy and soda, and it causes opposition from large companies that say that it is difficult to implement grocery stores without improving health results.
- Last month, Arkansas, Ida Ho, Indiana, and Governor West Virginia plans to submit an exemption to the US Agricultural Department, which restricts the type of food that can be purchased by the recipient of the supplementary support program.
- Potential prohibitions are enhancing the momentum of the “Make American Healthy Again” agenda by Robert F. Kennedy, Robert F.
Dive Insights:
The industry group, which represents soda and candy manufacturers, has been pushed hard to restrict snap purchases, and it will rarely do a certain food as a goal and to improve health results.
“This is a tremendous conflicting message.” Said in the statement. “How do you understand?”
In particular, it can be difficult to implement in a limited space where the definition of “candy” may vary from state to state. National Confectionery Association. For example, a trail mix can be prohibited in one state, but is allowed in other states.
MAHA MOVEMENT claims that if you limit SNAP purchases, you will force consumers to buy more nutritious foods, but many experts agree that there is no possibility of improving health results among low -income Americans.
Food purchasing patterns are almost the same between the SNAP family and the non -SNAP family. USDA Research Show. According to the Food Research & Action Center, SNAP winners have little to deal with the root cause of food anxiety because they already have access to cheap and healthy foods.
About 39 million Americans or about 6%of the US population live in the “food desert”. According to USDAThere is no grocery store or other convenient options for nutritious foods.
Republican $ 23 billion over the next 10 yearsIt can be much more difficult for people who rely on that support to pay healthy foods. Target is also set It affects fresh agricultural products It solves more economic problems than other food categories than other food categories.
Crystal Fitzsimons, a temporary chairman of the FRAC, said In the statement According to SNAP, the promotion of prohibiting certain foods is “Ignore the dangerous policy directions that ignore the data and impose a lot of money and inefficient restrictions.
“The main barriers to healthier foods are economical and incentive -based options are more successful in encouraging nutritious foods,” she said.
