Nanny State PING!
Beware the leaven of the medical Pharisees.
So sick of all these busy bodies!
This will just result in more restrictions on businesses (which is what every government action ultimately results in anyway). They will be required to reinventory every “food” item.
I believe the AMA is considered the largest medical association only because all medical profs and students belong to it.
Media makes too much money from ‘sugary drink’ advertising for this to ever fly LOL!
Bloomburg had the right idea: tax them!
That’s right- take the money the feds give the recipients and spend it on union raises and other boondoggles.
The media’s happy, the unions are happy, and the food stamp recipients don’t care.
Audit, fine and monitor people who use sugar products...
They can have my energy drinks from my cold, clammy hands.
My cold. Clammy. Hands.
On one hand, the states have never delegated to Congress, via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate, tax and spend for food aid, aka vote-buying programs. So military issues aside, no citizen should be receiving federal food aid.
One the other hand, noting that the 13 original states were nanny states, the states still have 10th Amendment-protected nanny state powers although such powers are now limited by the 14th Amendment. And it’s ultimately up to a state’s legal majority voters to decide what, if anything, is on the menu of state food aid programs.
Have you looked at ‘juice drinks’ lately?
Have you looked at how many of those ‘drinks’ contain that nasty stuff, aspertame?
Have you looked at the inside of some of those ‘juice box drinks’, lately? There is MOLD possibly present in them!
Who’s been paying for this stuff?? SNAP!!
I agree with this. Thirty years ago, I worked at Publix, and the customers were not allowed to buy pop, candy or prepared foods with food stamps. If Mooch was serious, btw, she would lead an effort to allow only meat, produce, dairy, and other nutritious foods to be bought with food stamps. No cookies, candy, pop, or chips!
Orange juice and some of the other fruit juices have more calories and as much sugar as sweetened carbonated drinks. And, the sugar is the current badboy, fructose.
I find many fruit juices so sweet that I dilute them upwards of 50% with water.
I’ve been to AMA conferences and they feed doctors a bunch of high carbs and sugary drinks.
Say what you like about the Nanny State (and I agree with most of it); however, personally I’m of the opinion that corn sweetener kills more people every year than traffic accidents.
I love it when people put sweet’n low in the coffee they drink to wash down the big fat cheese danish they just stuffed in their piehole.