Red States push leadership for the great soda ban

Republican -led states are leading the allegations of banning soda and candy from their food stamp programs, as Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s “Make America Healthy again” (MAHA) movement flips the traditional fibrous bias on its head.

Colorado is the only blue state that soda sanctions waived and it offers to extend snap facilities together with limiting the opportunity to the only waist -out state.

Both sides have expressed interest in removing soda from the supplemental nutrition help program (SNAP) from time to time, but the Trump administration first encouraged the state to do this.

Recent attempts to control soda have been focused on most blue cities. Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg (D) tried to ban supersized sugar -rich drinks in the 21st, persuading Republicans to decree his “nanny state” techniques.

Under MAHA branding now, with the push of healthy eating, the GOP states are jumping on the ship.

Kennedy does not run snap – which falls under the US Department of Agriculture (USDA). However, as a great face, Kennedy Soda and Candy were along with Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins to promote the ban.

In the first six months of the new administration, 12 state waqoff has been approved by USDA that limit snap recipients from buying soft drinks, sugar -rich drinks, energy drinks and some combinations of candy

“We all believe in free choice, we live in a democracy … If you want to buy sugar soda you should be able to do it. US taxpayer should not pay for it,” Kennedy said at a recent press conference.

The states that waived the demands are Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah and West Virginia.

Snap dollars can be used to buy any food or drink from the grocery store without alcohol, nutritious supplement or hot food. The concept of policing for low -income Americans shopping carts never sit well with anti -Handa lawyers who argue that it is patriarchal and scandalous for low -income Americans.

Further, federal data shows that sugar -rich drinks are the top sources of sugars containing American diet, nutrition experts say there is limited evidence that SNAP soda restrictions lead to better health results.

There is little evidence that banning the candy and confectionery from the snap can positively affect a person’s diet.

“Demanding to prevent diet-related diseases as a result of these restrictions, you cannot say with confidence. There is no evidence to support this statement,” Joel Johnson, deputy director of healthy food access to the center for the public interest, says a group that suggests a stronger nutrition control.

Snap Maukoff is only for pilot programs, so they will not instantly lead the long -term policy change. They are an opportunity for states to manage the research that are missing – if they want to find out.

Barry Popkin, a professor at the North Carolina School of Global Public Health, says they think they are the way to the states to show Maha Bonafides.

“None of these states are doing nothing more than to satisfy great, which is easier they can do internally. They don’t have to go to politicians [and pass laws]”Popkin said,” Without the permission of a state of Maukuf you do nothing you can buy junk food. “

Experts Histor Tihassically said that Republicans who wanted to ban soda from the snap also saw it as a way to trim the program on the program. Some lawyers see the latest push with suspicion.

One of the team that is strictly pressing for the state snap waist is the basis of government accountability, a conservative Think tank in Florida that has been working to re -shape the country’s public assistance programs for a decade and spend significantly spent.

Johnson said he was worried about slippery OPE. If low items are eligible for snap, he concerned GOP leaders will use it as an excuse to cut the monthly benefits of people.

Priya Fielding-Singh, director of the policy and program of the Global Food Institute at the University of George Washington, said that there may be any benefit in trying to focus on the purchase of SNAP in healthy food.

However, it is hard to look into the ban on a soda and candy separately, he said.

The Department of Agriculture has reduced to about $ 1 billion funding, which allow schools and food banks to buy food directly from local farms and feathers. The White House is offering deep cuts of fruits and vegetable facilities under the WIC program (special complementary nutrition programs for women, children and children).

The new GOP’s new tax cut law is expected to deduct $ 186 billion from SNAP in the next decade and millions will be disqualified from qualification.

Fielding-Singh says, “Soda is difficult to separate from the greater political efforts to shrink the snap as overall. So do these restrictions about health promoting or do they about to squeeze the snap, and I think the difference is important,” said Fielding-Singh.

He also added that any steps to restrict what people can buy with SNAP should be paired with people “ways to eat more healthy and access and resources”.

So far, none of the Red State waiver does so.

Governor Jared Polyes (D) in a statement on Colorado waiver called it “a major step towards improvement of the health of the Coloradans and decrease obesity, diabetes and tooth decay” will help to ensure that the Snaps have access to healthy foods. “

The Trump administration has not yet given the hot foods from grocery stores like Rotassary Chicken or Soup on a separate waiver on a separate waist.

The Democratic Government Laura Kelly (Kan) and Katie Hobbs (ARIZ). Each Vetoid Bill that called on their states to be submitted on the waiver to ban candy and soda.

Kelly wrote in his veto message, “I support the idea that the Consans should eat healthy.

He also points out that the language will be compulsory to stop taking food assistance facilities for “healthy” items like protein bar and trail mix, continuing the permission of Twaks, Kit Cat and Twizlers.

Kennedy said this week that he was expecting more blue states to be waived.

“I was at the Governor Conference in Colorado last week in Colorado and I met the entire string of the Democratic Governors and they were all committed to filing snap waits,” Kennedy said.

Kennedy also said that these governors are also committed to keeping other “great laws” but he acknowledges that they do not want to be associated with the word because it has become a “biased brand”.

Rolins said that healthy eating should be bilateral in Colorado’s waiver.

“It’s not red or blue, not Republicans or Democrats,” said Rolins. “We’re in talks and working with each state, so it is really excited to continue working with Governor Polys.”