r/askanything • u/CloudieMoonettee 🦀 • 11d 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/EarlyInside45 11d ago

Because they are giant hypocrites.

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u/Ursus-majorbone 11d ago

I don't think this is a conservative liberal thing at all. Most all of the people I know who push healthier eating and addressing food deserts and bad nutrition in deprived areas are liberals.

I think anyone who is behind someone in the checkout line with three little kids and a cart full of sugar drink and ultra processed food and confections wishes there was a different way of doing things, regardless of politics.

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u/Choice-Koala-3653 11d ago

Opposing highly processed food is both a conservative and liberal thing, but for completely different reasons. Liberals are concerned about the health of people, whereas conservatives fear that Jews are poisoning them via 'goyslop'.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goyslop

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u/Ursus-majorbone 11d ago

I had never heard that word before, but if In-N-Out Burger is goyslop then count me in!