By Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH
Approximately 10.5% of Texans are on SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) which allows $188 per person per month. Federal data suggest >20% of SNAP dollars are spent on junk food.
Texas Policy Research reported on March 24, 2025:
A new bill making its way through the Texas Legislature is aiming to reshape how Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits—commonly referred to as food stamps—can be used. Texas Senate Bill 379 (SB 379), authored by State Sen. Mayes Middleton (R-Galveston) and backed by several Senate Republicans, seeks to prohibit the use of SNAP funds to purchase specific items classified as junk food (soda, chips, cookies). The move marks a notable shift in the ongoing conversation around public assistance, nutrition, and taxpayer accountability.
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Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH
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It oughta' be a law:
-- SNAP can only be spent on Produce and meat. Period.
I never understood why we are giving money, when we can give the food directly.
So, instead of using food stamps to buy junk food and drinks, they’ll use whatever other cash they have on hand to buy that stuff.
true, but THEN they will look at the price of wheat thins and Frito's being $5 and, possibly, THINK.
All I see is rich people coercing poor people into doing what they want and not allowing poor people to make their own decisions. This is disgraceful, dictatorial and stepping too much into people's individual lives. Some of us are already tired of mandates from the pandemic, but now more authoritarianism is being imposed on people.
Will also add that these are people who probably cannot afford to take fancy vacations and who may be using junk food as one of their treats in life. It seems mean spirited to me to deny a person who has little, ice cream, in the name of their health. How about raising the standard of living for these people so that they can better afford healthy food?
All this punching down on the poor when they haven't dared to ban these items from more wealthy Americans' shopping carts! The backlash would be enormous!
Taxpayers should not be paying for someone else’s junk food.
But when this all expands into a greater % of the population having Un-healthy life behaviors, it just leads to an un-healthy society. The we all must deal with the burden.
This same subset has offspring. Enabling an expanding more of the same wretchedness.
It would be a good thing, not to applaud/condone the dumbing of America's nutrition
A high sucrose diet is one factor that lies behind health problems such as obesity and diabetes. A bigger factor however, is an inactive "chillin" lifestyle. A culture where children are raised indoors behind screens, rather than outdoors in the natural world, which trains the immune system, and builds the body is the big culprit. A life estranged from nature, the world from which we come inevitably leads to physical and psychological problems. Hence we see an epidemic of depressive-anxiety-panic problems, not to mention suicides among our youth. 70% of young people do not qualify for the military because of health problems, and when they go through basic training their bones break, because of an inactive childhood. Robbing children of sweets is cruel, and attacks the symptom, not the problems.
Dr. McCullough, why do I need a security code?
Am I being monitored?
I to have haters out to dispel my posts as misinformation.
I have receipts to support all my comments as being truth even for Dr. Malone or FAUCI.
SO I would like to know your reason for your actions to Issue a security number to me.
Junk Food lobbyists in town???
Watch to see how the marketing directors of Zero nutrition junk foods,
attempt to spin some weird health food associations with their products.
Can you say pretty label changes ahead? I knew you could.....Mr. Rogers. Hahaha