Ingrid Burrows

Current SNAP program choices: a humble subsidy for recipient’s health, local food producers

This proposal to overhaul the SNAP program, like so many recently, is terrifying.

Of course, even if the infrastructure costs of pulling off such a feat would massively cut into the benefits that families actually receive, providing that box of canned and processed food would be a nice fat deal for a few corporate buddies of the administration.

I have been on food stamps for many years. Even before I had children, I qualified financially to receive them - even when working two to three jobs.

Since I have had children, these benefits have, as Allyson Wendt writes, allowed me to make healthy food choices for my children and have allowed me to use food as my first line of health care.

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