1. La Dicotomía Días Festivos vs. Inseguridad Alimentaria.
El tema central del archivo es la perturbadora coincidencia entre la noche de Halloween, una celebración centrada en la recolección de dulces, y la fecha límite del 1 de noviembre, cuando millones de familias enfrentarían la pérdida o interrupción de sus beneficios SNAP (Programa de Asistencia Nutricional Suplementaria), lo que se percibe como un escenario distópico y aterrador.
- Coincidental timing that snap is running out the day after halloween, the night when kids go door-to-door asking for candy.
- The juxtaposition of halloween - dressing up to solicit snacks - against lapsing of snap benefits - the national food assistance program in the us - is just batshit to me.
- The real halloween horror story snap benefits expire nov. 1.
- Its bumming me out that the evening before snap wont be renewed on nov 1, due to the govt shutdown, will be halloween, and the tradition is to give candy to kids, which is fun, but maybe tradition needs to update this year.
2. Llamados a la Ayuda Mutua: Alimentos en Lugar de Dulces.
Ante la inminente crisis alimentaria, surgió un movimiento viral que instaba a los vecinos a practicar la ayuda mutua distribuyendo alimentos no perecederos o estables junto con los dulces tradicionales. Las sugerencias comunes incluían ramen, barras de granola, puré de manzana envasado y tazas de mac and cheese instantáneo, aunque algunos advirtieron contra "arruinar" la experiencia de los niños.
- If you are expecting trick-or-treaters halloween night, please consider also offering shelf-stable foods alongside candy.
- Consider offering granola bars, ramen, and potatoes for halloween this year- snap runs out november 1st and food banks are already running low because of the shutdown and people not getting paid.
- Ramen instead of reeses? looming snap cuts change whats on offer for halloween trick-or-treaters.
- I saw stories of people generally in lower-income neighborhoods offering both candy and non-perishable food items during trick-or-treat in anticipation of snap getting de-funded.
- With snap benefits possibly not going out, im begging folks with disposable income to donate to food banks. And as i live in a mixed income area, im thinking of handing out some healthy snacks alongside the candy on halloween.
3. El Impacto en los Niños y la Crítica Política.
Una preocupación recurrente es el impacto directo de la interrupción de SNAP en los niños, quienes constituyen una gran parte de los beneficiarios. La retención de fondos se atribuye directamente a decisiones políticas, lo que lleva a fuertes críticas hacia el gobierno y llamados a la acción política o la donación a bancos de alimentos.
- 1 in 5 kids in the united states receive snap benefits. That is 14 million children who will be food insecure starting november 1st.
- Children will go hungry because trump and his enablers have ended snap.
- Make sure you give healthy food at halloween for all the kids who will go hungry on november 1st when trump and republicans cut off snap.
- Be extra generous with halloween candy this year. For 40 million kids, this is the last candy theyre getting until snap is restored.
- The most disgusting thing about this is parents struggling to get by in the face of bills, rent, disability, extraordinarily low wages, etc, and depend on snap for food will now be unable to feed their kids the day after halloween. Let them eat candy i guess. And starve after that.