More States Are Restricting Junk Food from SNAP Benefits

Wednesday, August 20, 2025

Six more states were granted waivers from the Department of Agriculture to prohibit Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Benefits, or SNAP, from being used on certain processed food and beverages.

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Thank you, Colorado, West Virginia, Texas, Florida, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Nebraska, and Utah for stepping up to Make America Healthy Again.

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-- HHS.gov (mirror) (@hhsgov.govmirrors.com) Aug 6, 2025 at 11:23 PM

Comments

This is going to hurt the corporations who produce junk foods.

Which means there are lobbyists currently trying to sink it and reverse any legislation.

#1 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-08-19 04:00 PM

I'm all in favor of limiting how much junk food people are eating.

I'd prefer it to be a personal choice.

But. This isn't bad.

All I know is, should a democrat have proposed such legislation, republicans would be losing their minds.

Also.

Is ketchup still a vegetable?

Maybe corporations will figure out how to rebrand their foods from junk food to vegetables too.

Potato chips are potatoes and coke is corn ... sounds healthier already.

#2 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-08-19 04:02 PM

I was OK with this back in the 70's, and still am, regardless of who is pushing it. Righties think they are punishing poor people but ultimately it will probably be helpful.

#3 | Posted by mattm at 2025-08-19 04:15 PM

"This is going to hurt the corporations who produce junk foods.
Which means there are lobbyists currently trying to sink it and reverse any legislation."

that seems to be working in blue states.

you would think it would be in reverse....blue states restricting the junk food vs the red states.

they're healthier in those states and it would make sense if they resisted that lobbying and implement the restrictions.

#4 | Posted by eberly at 2025-08-19 04:16 PM

I have no problem removing junk food from SNAP eligibility, which is corporate welfare not only for the junk food companies but for the health insurance companies that cover the junk food victims.

#5 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-08-19 05:10 PM

I'm completely fine with this.

Not only is the food terrible for you, but it's also more expensive than buying good, decent food and produce. Most people buy that s*&^ out of convenience/laziness.

#6 | Posted by jpw at 2025-08-19 05:43 PM

This is the funniest post I've seen in months. A fat, retarded Floribama sea cow is posting about "junk food". Bwahaha
Bwahaha. Stop drinking Karo right from the jar, you fat retarded MAGAT ----.

#7 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-08-19 10:14 PM

Why would we ever force taxpayers to buy trash junk food concocted by big business that would mostly harm impoverished Americans?

#8 | Posted by Robson at 2025-08-20 08:00 PM

Food should be a personal choice for the consumer who buys it.

#9 | Posted by Robson at 2025-08-20 08:04 PM

Why would we ever force taxpayers to buy trash junk food concocted by big business that would mostly harm impoverished Americans?
#8 | Posted by Robson

Food should be a personal choice for the consumer who buys it.
#9 | Posted by Robson

We didn't force them.
We gave them the choice.

#10 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-08-20 08:17 PM

Per MAGA: Fascism and Nazi-ism in all its forms is good. We believe in the government telling people what to eat and drink. (But NO vaccines!).

#11 | Posted by moder8 at 2025-08-20 09:36 PM

This might force stores in food deserts to actually stock edible food. Or they'll just not stock food altogether, and the desertification will spread

#12 | Posted by hamburglar at 2025-08-21 05:08 AM

The problem with our corporate agribusiness a bag of chips is .79 a salad is 7.49.

When your food allowance per day is $2.39 which becomes a reality?

#13 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-08-21 07:38 AM

Besides, how many bags of potato chips have been recalled for e-coli contamination vs bags of lettuce?

#14 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-08-21 07:39 AM

But what are the bloated diabetes medicine manufacturers going to do? RFK is taking billions out of their fat bottom lines.

#15 | Posted by lee_the_agent at 2025-08-21 08:12 AM

Sell to the ozempic crowd.

#16 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2025-08-21 11:31 AM

9 of 10 people aren't on SNAP. When Republicans throw punches it's always downwards.

#17 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2025-08-21 11:33 AM

I wouldn't doubt some of the Ozempic crowd is also on SNAP. Buggers know how to work the system. I bet Trump has a SNAP card. Uses it for Funions and Diet coke.

#18 | Posted by lee_the_agent at 2025-08-21 11:35 AM

"All I know is, should a democrat have proposed such legislation, republicans would be losing their minds."

Nope, sorry, you can't use what ifs. Liberals demonize cons for doing it all the time so there is no way liberals can do it without looking like hypocrites (I have my doubts these days over whether or not being a hypocrite actually bothers liberals, though).

That being said, you are 100% right :-)

#19 | Posted by humtake at 2025-08-21 12:22 PM

Mo worries! I've known Evangelical Christians all my life; None of them have ever been guilty of the sib of Empathy!

#20 | Posted by danni at 2025-08-22 02:59 PM

sib = sin

#21 | Posted by danni at 2025-08-22 03:00 PM

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