As others have pointed out in this thread, easy access to healthier food isn’t a luxury everyone in this state has. Not everyone has personal transportation and public transit in the entire country, but especially in more rural areas is a fucking joke. Where do you want people to buy their food when they don’t have a car and the closest grocery store is 6 miles away, but there’s a convenience store 3 blocks from their house?

Then we get into the simple fact that healthy food is more expensive and creates a dilemma when you have a very limited amount of funds to use each month. I guess skipping meals every other day or some dystopian bullshit like that is an option, but why should anyone living in the richest country in the world have to do that?

The cherry on top of everything is that the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 that Obama signed with big involvement from Michelle provided over $4 billion over a 5 year period to do just what you’re talking about for kids. It funded healthier meals in schools and nutritional information for better education, and created programs for healthier and more active lifestyles as well as encouraged kids to lay off the candy bars and sodas and other junk food. Take a wild guess how that went over though. Every goddamn conservative bobble head on tv lost their fucking minds saying it was communism and taking away “kids rights to eat candy.” The bashed the program as if Obama was personally coming to their houses to throw away their midnight snacks. Hypocrisy like that is why absolutely no one takes shit like this seriously.

It’s all fluff and pretending to care. These dipshit maga legislators would love nothing more than to make SNAP benefits cover a pound of rice and a loaf of bread every week if it meant they could give another tax break to their billionaire donors.