What I'd like to do to improve the food stamp program

[Shandris]

44. Look, I know that has a nice ring to it, but...

...that doesn't have a whole hell of a lot to do with nutrition. Oh, it -can-, to be certain, but doesn't by necessity. It's a political statement.

And while politics is all well and good, when politics interferes with real life, politics loses. For a well-to-do person with Whole Foods and Trader Joes and whatever-the-heck-else shops people like to use for all their organic needs, I'm sure it's peachy keen. Joe, whose out painting the interior of a house for $8/hour in 110 degree temperature needs more for lunch than a tofu sandwich and tuna on crackers.

Eh. Tuna and crackers are both processed. Let me rephrase. He needs more from his lunch than the expectation of heading home, handmaking some bread from scratch, then using it to pack a condiment-free lunch with some...kale or whatever to eat tomorrow with an orange on the side. Neither does he need to plan on heading home, heating up the crock pot, and cooking a different whole meat every day so he can appease someone 3,000 miles away who thinks that its just -too unhealthy- for him to use Carl Buddig turkey instead of non-processed. I don't think you realize -just- what all 'processed' food -really- means.

Offer some information if people are interested. Offer them an incentive, even. But ultimately the choice is Joe's, or mine, or whoever else may be on the food stamps.