{"id":62027,"date":"2018-02-24T17:19:21","date_gmt":"2018-02-24T17:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/?p=62027"},"modified":"2018-02-24T17:19:21","modified_gmt":"2018-02-24T17:19:21","slug":"trump-wants-deny-struggling-americans-access-healthy-farmers-market-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/trump-wants-deny-struggling-americans-access-healthy-farmers-market-food\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Wants to Deny Struggling Americans Access to Healthy Farmers Market Food"},"content":{"rendered":"

Getting to choose what you eat seemingly doesn\u2019t apply to poor people.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

It’s time\u2014literally\u2014for an out-of-the-box approach to the Trump administration’s plan to help feed our most vulnerable neighbors.<\/p>\n

In last week\u2019s presidential budget, the administration proposed replacing most Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits with a pre-selected box of mostly dry goods like peanut butter, pasta and cereal. They wanted to stop benefit recipients from choosing their own food, including redeeming their federal assistance at farmers\u2019 markets such as those our organization manages across Los Angeles. That\u2019s right, fresh fruits and vegetables, nuts or whole grains\u2014any semblance of a product that looks like it came from a farm\u2014were excluded. Meanwhile, the plan was introduced with Orwellian descriptors like “access to a nutritious diet” and “100% U.S. grown and produced food.”<\/p>\n

SNAP, formerly food stamps, provides very limited aid to more than 40 million Americans, primarily children, seniors and the disabled. SNAP recipients receive on average $1.40 in benefits per meal, wholly inadequate to address food insecurity among a wide swath of Americans. Nevertheless, the White House budget office seeks to slash SNAP by 30 percent over the next decade. The so-called Harvest Box was reportedly Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue’s contribution to that effort, touted as a poor people’s Blue Apron that would buy American-produced canned goods and save taxpayers billions.<\/p>\n

The bipartisan rejection of this scheme was swift, but the strategy behind it painfully transparent. The food box concept hadn’t even been floated among congressional Republicans before it materialized fully formed in the president\u2019s budget. Administration officials conceded it had merely been a ploy, a Trumpian distraction to lay the groundwork for massive cuts to federal food aid.<\/p>\n

While this cynical grub box proposal is unlikely to advance, it\u2019s worth unpacking the insidious implications that waft from it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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