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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...ue-apron-type-program/?utm_term=.5cdccf3a3310
Basically, Trump has decided to revamp the food stamp program so that we receive a box of canned goods instead of being able to shop for our own food. That means no fresh fruits and vegetables, no eggs, no cheese, no chicken on sale... Just processed foods with extra sugar and salt and chemicals.
I'm a recovering diabetic who is presently on disability while I finish my internship. Once I go back to work, it will be part time, so I will continue to be on food stamps, I'm afraid. It is very important that I be on a strict diet that is low carb, with lots of fresh vegetables. NO SUGAR and no artificial sweetners. I simply can't be eating these substandard food-like substances that they put into cans. This kind of change to the food stamp program would just be unhealthy for me--it would be downright dangerous.
I'm sure there are many like me. Diabetes and other metabolic syndrome disorders are much more common among the poor simply because the bad for you foods are cheaper. (That's why Trump wants to do this -- he wants to give us the bad for you foods because it's a cheaper program.) Such a program is going to end up putting people in the hospital, even in the morgue.
Please write to Trump and beg him not to do this. Tell him you are scandelized. Give him rational arguments. Give him emotional arguments. Say anything. But please write and say something. Write or Call the White House
Basically, Trump has decided to revamp the food stamp program so that we receive a box of canned goods instead of being able to shop for our own food. That means no fresh fruits and vegetables, no eggs, no cheese, no chicken on sale... Just processed foods with extra sugar and salt and chemicals.
I'm a recovering diabetic who is presently on disability while I finish my internship. Once I go back to work, it will be part time, so I will continue to be on food stamps, I'm afraid. It is very important that I be on a strict diet that is low carb, with lots of fresh vegetables. NO SUGAR and no artificial sweetners. I simply can't be eating these substandard food-like substances that they put into cans. This kind of change to the food stamp program would just be unhealthy for me--it would be downright dangerous.
I'm sure there are many like me. Diabetes and other metabolic syndrome disorders are much more common among the poor simply because the bad for you foods are cheaper. (That's why Trump wants to do this -- he wants to give us the bad for you foods because it's a cheaper program.) Such a program is going to end up putting people in the hospital, even in the morgue.
Please write to Trump and beg him not to do this. Tell him you are scandelized. Give him rational arguments. Give him emotional arguments. Say anything. But please write and say something. Write or Call the White House