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My issue with this is how do they classify "junk food?"

Soda and candy are obvious, but what about pork? Or red meat? Or whole milk verses skim milk?

Ultimately, obesity isn't caused by eating "junk food," it's caused by eating more calories than what you burn off. You can accomplish "fatness" by eating "healthy" food.

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The reason some people support this is because they resent the idea of the poor spending tax money on junk food. It has nothing to do with good will.

Junk food would be soft drinks like Coca Cola, Dr Pepper, sugary foods like twinkies, no nutritional value foods like potato chips.

Those are classic examples of junk food. It's not like they are a potato that can be nutrition-downed by the consumer. It's food that's had that done before it gets to the shelf so that it has no merits to it's existence except to destroy the health of the person buying it. White bread would be a classic example IF...

Never fear though, if laws were created penalizing it, the manufactures would simply do what they do to white bread. Add a bunch of enrichment, like vitamin powders and what not. Then it wouldn't be junk food any more.

Again, it's cherry picking of laws. In some areas, parents can be jailed if their kids do not attend these gang infested, violence riddled, low competency, broken down schools on a regular basis yet they are free to feed them a diet of snack foods like Doritos, high fructose corn syrup infused Dr Peppers and plenty of sugary desserts at will.

I don't think it's good to start banning certain types of food for food stamp recipients. I've also heard of proposals to ban things like seafood because it's luxurious, even though nutritionists generally recommend that you get some fish every so often.

It is no one's business what someone on food stamps spends it on.
Yes, even if they buy a freaking PS4, IT IS NOT YOUR BUSINESS.
But, if it makes you feel better, by all means, ridicule them as much as you want. You're going to do it anyway.
And remember, you'll NEVER have to resort to food stamps yourself.....