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For "food deserts", this can be fixed by requiring places to offer a good selection of quality healthy items in order to be able to accept food stamps. This wi
by derekp7 7y ago
For "food deserts", this can be fixed by requiring places to offer a good selection of quality healthy items in order to be able to accept food stamps. This will work, as long as the food stamp based income is significant enough for those shops (they wouldn't want to give up that revenue just to avoid adjusting their inventory). Same with a requirement to serve those with dietary restrictions.
For the affordability issue, healthy items can be classified as getting a discount on the food stamps. This can be implemented with food stamps plus coupons (that are only good when used in conjunction with them).
- logfromblammo 7y agoThe requirement you describe is often why convenience stores have a basket with one or two each of Red Delicious apples, bananas, and navel oranges, with a sign saying "fruit $2" It the same sort of dodge as defining ketchup or pizza sauce as a serving of vegetables in school lunches. There's never going to be enough funding to enforce the spirit of the regulation instead of just the literal wording of it.