1. La Defensa de la Autonomía y el Rechazo a la Policía Alimentaria.
Una abrumadora mayoría de comentarios rechaza la idea de que el gobierno o el público deban dictar qué alimentos pueden comprar los beneficiarios de SNAP. Se argumenta que la asistencia alimentaria debe garantizar la dignidad y la libertad de elección, permitiendo incluso "golosinas" ocasionales, ya que la pobreza no debe ser un castigo que elimine todo placer.
- I dont care what people buy with their snap benefits. I just want people to eat. Food is a human right.
- If you have the good fortune not to need snap, shut the everloving fuck up about what recipients buy.
- What people use snap for is no ones fucking business, anyway.
- Poor people deserve treats, too.
- Snap recipients should have autonomy over their food choices, just like anyone else.
- I would rather a million people use snap to buy a filet mignon or whatever than have one person starving to death because they couldnt afford food.
2. Críticas a las Restricciones de Compra y la Prohibición de Comida Caliente.
Existe una fuerte crítica a las reglas actuales de SNAP, especialmente la prohibición de comprar comidas preparadas o calientes (como pollos rostizados), lo cual penaliza a personas sin hogar, discapacitadas o sin tiempo para cocinar. Además, las nuevas restricciones estatales que buscan prohibir la compra de refrescos y dulces son vistas como paternalistas y punitivas, ignorando la realidad de los desiertos alimentarios.
- You cant even get hot food at a grocery store with snap benefits.
- Snap recipients already can't buy "prepared" food (which really just means hot food bc cold sandwhiches are ok for some reason but not soup).
- This restriction on snap is insane. Not everyone who receives snap has a place to call home to cook food in.
- The whole 'snap can't be used on junk food' thing is beyond dehumanizing.
- The best example of this bureaucratic stupidity: snap recipients cannot buy rotisserie chickens, often priced far below raw chickens, and must instead purchase more expensive raw chickens and invest the time in cooking them.
- You cant even buy vitamins, toothpaste or hot food with snap so they just want to dogwhistle.
3. Insuficiencia de Beneficios y la Paradoja de la Comida Saludable.
Los usuarios y defensores de SNAP enfatizan que los beneficios son insuficientes para cubrir las necesidades alimentarias de un mes completo, siendo solo un "suplemento". La realidad económica obliga a los beneficiarios a comprar alimentos procesados y altos en calorías, ya que las opciones saludables son prohibitivamente caras, lo que contradice el objetivo de "nutrición" del programa.
- Snap is only supposed to supplement your dietary needs. You should be spending your own money, you've earned working a job, on processed crap.
- The benefits someone receives on snap can barely feed them. It can’t pay for healthy food.
- Healthy options are not remotely affordable to those on snap.
- Junk food is cheaper so the dollars go further.
- If you want snap users to eat healthy, double their snap benefits. It’s expensive to buy healthy foods.
- The average snap user gets 200 for a month of food, theyre not blowing a quarter of their budget on steak and lobster.
4. La Crueldad de los Recortes y la Demonización de los Beneficiarios.
Los recortes de fondos y la amenaza de suspensión de SNAP generan pánico y preocupación por la inanición, especialmente entre niños y ancianos. La retórica política que demoniza a los beneficiarios, a menudo trabajadores pobres o personas con discapacidades, es condenada como una táctica cruel para justificar la reducción de la asistencia y desviar la atención de problemas sistémicos como la desigualdad salarial.
- Cutting snap is stealing from hungry people.
- If you think its okay that there could be over 42 million people - including 20 million children - in america next month who will starve because of snap being taken away, stay far the fuck away from me.
- The hostility so many people have toward those who receive snap is hard to understand.
- The junk food snap user is more myth than fact.
- The majority of people on snap work pay taxes. Why the fuck cant they eat what they want like you can?
- Snap is such an effective measure it makes me mad as hell anyone is against it! poor people.get money for food! easy as that!