Comments on FA-RM: What Can You Buy on Food Stamps?

Yes, smart people can live on a food stamp budget,...

2009-02-23T15:32:00.000-07:00

Yes, smart people can live on a food stamp budget, but most people on food stamps are pretty clueless. I agree that food stamps should be phased out and food pantries increased. Then the food pantries could accept more federal money and hand out weekly menus and recipes on how to cook real healthy meals from the food that was just given to them AND they could offer cooking classes taught by volunteers or whatever. $588 for a family of 4??? We are a family of 4 that spends less than that every month on food, gas, & clothing. The difference??? I am college educated and I do lots of research of healthy inexpensive meals and bulk shop the sales. Oh yeah, I can cook too!! See the problem... Most, not all of these people need to be shown the right way to budget and cook the food they are given.

I find it intriguing that although Taubes' book ma...

2009-02-11T04:22:00.000-07:00

I find it intriguing that although Taubes' book may have been more or less ignored by the mainstream, it is getting noticed everywhere else, and especially that Armstrong is going to prove that even people on food stamps can eat better.

Back in high school, I had a part-time job as a ca...

2009-02-11T01:48:00.000-07:00

Back in high school, I had a part-time job as a cashier in a supermarket.

Back then, and many times since then, in the checkout lines, many of the people with food stamps are buying more expensive foods than me; not just the packaged stuff that costs an arm and a leg, but also more expensive cuts of meat and more deli foods to boot.

Of course. But the idea that people can't feed the...

2009-02-04T11:59:00.000-07:00

Of course. But the idea that people can't feed themselves healthily on the Food Stamp program has been a major impetus for increasing the Food Stamp budget as has recently been done -- and those assertions definitely need to be dealt with.

I'd like to see the Food Stamp program completely eliminated, too. but in the meantime I'll continue to point out the irrationality of the "we can't feed ourselves healthily on this diet" myth -- and I'm glad Ari is doing so.

My view is that the main objection to Food Stamp p...

2009-02-04T11:53:00.000-07:00

My view is that the main objection to Food Stamp programs is not waste from ignorant food choices, but the immorality of the way the programs are financed: forcing some individuals (those who must pay taxes) to give up their wealth.

That approach is an attack on the right of property, which is one of the three basic rights (after the right of life and the right of liberty).