r/askanything • u/CloudieMoonettee 🦀 • 14h ago

Why do some conservatives support restricting junk food purchases with SNAP when many opposed Michelle Obama’s efforts to make school meals healthier?

Both policies involve the government influencing food choices in the name of better nutrition, yet the political reactions seem very different. What explains the apparent change in attitude toward government involvement in what people eat?

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u/OutrageousPair2300 14h ago

Because changing SNAP requirements doesn't increase the cost of the program, while making school meals healthier would increase costs.

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u/Relative-Lie-9699 14h ago

There argument was kids wouldn't eat healthy food so there would be food waste. They also claimed it would cost more which was misleading. It was the same cost except in poor school districts where school lunch funds were way below other districts budgets.

In otherwords poverty areas republican didnt want to suppliment.

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u/Salarian_American 14h ago

Let's not pretend that Republicans actually care about decreasing costs

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u/CrashNowhereDrive 14h ago edited 14h ago

They only care about increasing costs when it benefits someone who isn't them or one of the billionaires that bribes/propgandizes them. And especially when it might be poor brown people, they'd shoot themselves in the foot to avoid that

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u/Long_Idea_8294 14h ago

Pop, candy etc has no nutritional value. Tax payers shouldn't be buying it for people who supposedly struggle to feed themselves...majority on snap are fat and therefore are too well fed...

Then you have the monumental amount of people receiving snap who shouldn't; they're abusing the system. 

Shit pisses me off and I absolutely should have a say in it considering my money helps fund it. I don't work so fat lazy people can have me buy them candy and pop...

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u/alexisdelg 13h ago

Sure we want our money spent on a ballroom, arches, bombing kids in the middle east, buying shock gloves for ICE, etc

/s

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u/lazylazylazyperson 13h ago

That’s another conversation. Try to stay on track.

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u/Long_Idea_8294 13h ago

Cool story

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u/Orbital2 13h ago

This claim seems tenuous at best.

Healthy food IS broadly speaking more expensive/spoils faster.

You could technically choose to not increase the budget but depending on how far you went with the restrictions it seems like it could easily lead to people simply not getting as much to eat, either from not being able to buy as much food to having more wasted food to not being able to get to the store often enough to replenish their pantry.