It would be a pretty simple matter to change the food stamp program to something like WIC (Women Infant Children nutrition program). You get coupons that are for given amounts of various types of foods, based on family size. So many pounds of meat, so many pounds of cheese, etc. Zero pounds of Fritos, Snickers, Otter Pops or Froot Loops.
Guvment is just horrified if you try to tell people how to live their lives, even while doling out money to them. I say, if its our money, we have a right to decide what it goes for, even if we can't stop it from going.
On the subject of school lunches (we called it "hot lunch" in my school)- When I was in about second grade, my mom packed a "sack lunch" for me every day, but the cooks at our school were wizards (farm wives, actually), and they whumped up some really good stuff for hot lunch. While I'm eating my leftover roast sandwich, the hot lunch crowd was having mashed potatoes and gravy, and I decided I'd rather have hot lunch. But I didn't want to hurt Mom's feelings, so I so I practiced what to say- but I was only half way through my prepared remarks when she caught on, and said it would be fine if I took hot lunch, and so I did, at a dollar a week (mid-1950's), as I recall. She told me later that she was really relieved not to have to make me lunch, but she thought that was what I wanted.
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