[lbo-talk] Sugary children's cereals sweeter than chocolate bars

[jthorn65 at sbcglobal.net]

Food stamps (EBT) or WIC vouchers?
I've known not a few people who qualified for food stamps and their were no requirements as to what to 
purchase.
People with WIC vouchers I know had to buy fruit juice and meat and other category items in specific amounts 
so I could see having cereal as a category but I don't see why oatmeal or granola would satisfy the 
requirement.

John Thornton

On 4 Sep 2006 at 21:42, joanna wrote:


> I don't see why anyone is surprised. All you have to do is taste the 
> damn things. It's obvious  that they contain equal parts of chemicals 
> and sugar and that there is nothing healthy about them.
> 
> To add insult to injury though, women who get food stamps, get a certain 
> allotment of sugary cereal that they MUST BUY or they lose those 
> predestined "dollars." It's called a subsidy to General Foods 
> masquerading as aid to the poor.  It's obscene.
> 
> Joanna