Missouri Republicans try to block people on food stamps from eating well
By Sam Stecklow, April 5, 2015
Zippiskootch @zippiskootchMissouri State Rep. Rick Brattin has introduced legislation into the House that would block people on food stamps from purchasing ”cookies, chips, energy drinks, soft drinks, seafood or steak.” The Washington Post reports:
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Seafood has been shown, time and again, to be a healthy part of any diet. And steak is such a broad category that it’s essentially banning people from buying any flat cuts of beef, from porterhouse to flank.Brattin claims that he has seen people “purchasing filet mignons and crab legs with their EBT cards.” As Jezebel notes,
“It just seems really repressive,” said Mark Rank, a professor at Washington University and author of the book Living on the Edge: The Realities of Welfare in America. “I don’t see how it makes any sense to ban some of these foods. Fish is something that should really be in your diet. And steak, what does that mean in this context?”
It’s truly amazing that these eagle-eyed politicians manage to spot food stamp abuse every time they go to the grocery store, especially considering that SNAP fraud is thought to be extremely rare....................................................................................................................................................................
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