Food Stamps and Soda
Politics By Faith w/Mike Slater
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🗓️ 28 March 2025
⏱️ 19 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, welcome to Politics by Faith. Thank you for being here. Last couple days on the radio, |
| 0:09.8 | we talked about food stamps and soda. Three different things happening. In the federal level, |
| 0:18.5 | there is a move by health and human services to not allow people |
| 0:21.8 | on SNAP. That's the supplemental nutrition assistance program to be able to buy soda. |
| 0:28.3 | Snap, by the way, if you go to the website, it says SNAP provides food benefits, so does not food, |
| 0:33.7 | to low-income families to supplement their grocery budget. Real groceries, like food is what we're looking for here. |
| 0:41.3 | So they can afford the nutritious food, |
| 0:44.3 | so it is not nutritious, essential to health and well-being. |
| 0:49.3 | So HHS is probably going to come out and say you can't use food stamps to buy soda. |
| 0:54.7 | Apparently WIC, women, infant, and children, that type of food stamp, you're already not allowed |
| 0:59.3 | to do that, but they're going to expand that restriction to snap. |
| 1:02.9 | Now, we talked to a Texas state representative about a Texas bill that expands that to |
| 1:07.4 | you can't buy soda, cookies, candy, or chips. |
| 1:12.0 | So they're expanding it out to junk food. |
| 1:15.2 | I would like to propose. |
| 1:17.5 | We've not done this yet. |
| 1:18.4 | I'll do it on Monday show, I think. |
| 1:20.0 | We'll see how things go this weekend. |
| 1:20.8 | But I'd like to expand that to all fast food. |
| 1:25.3 | That's my nature anyway. |
| 1:26.5 | That's my instinct. |
| 1:28.7 | But maybe that'll change based off this conversation here on this podcast. |
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