Food stamp bills seek to restrict junk food

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37. That's a bit unfair. She is saying that just because someone is getting public assistance doesn't

give the rest of us the right to micromanage. We don't know the situation. Maybe the poster IS shopping the sales, coupon clipping and scrimping on meat purchases etc. and maybe the SNAP clients are also. Sometimes the cheapest food is what a lot of people consider junk food. Sodas for example are often cheaper than fruit juice. As it is many families on SNAP cannot make it to the end of the month on their allotment. FSNE educators try to educate SNAP families on nutrition, budgeting, etc. but guess what, FSNE grants are some of the most difficult grants to administer because of all the regulations about what the educators can do and can't do - for example, FSNE educators are not supposed to provide classes on managing Type II diabetes because it is "not nutrition education" even though just about everyone who knows anything about it agrees that a big part of managing Type II diabetes is nutrition. Also, there are not nearly enough FSNE grant funds to meet the need for SNAP education, particularly in the large cities where there are a lot of SNAP families. What is needed is more education, not a lot of mandates which are going to be extremely difficult to enforce and will only make it more difficult and more expensive for retailers to participate in SNAP - resulting in even fewer choices for SNAP families and even higher costs for retailers in order to comply with the new regs - costs which would be passed on to all of us in the form of higher food prices.