Weigh in - State lawmaker wants to ban people from using food stamps to buy junk food

kairosgrammy
on 5/15/19 11:23 am
RNY on 10/17/17

You know what is sad? Food is thrown away every day in cafeterias. And if a kid really needs feeding, can they have the food that' gonna be thrown away? No.

Surgeon: Dr. David Carroll Surgery Date: 3/17/2017 Hospital: Merritt Health River Oaks Hospital

Height: 5'2" HW: 331 lbs SW: 279 lbs GW: 130 (originally, I changed to 140) CW: 130 to 135 ish

Biggest Goal: To Be Healthy in everything I do!!! To make healthy choices always!!! To just embrace HEALTH each and every day for the rest of my Life!!!

Valerie G.
on 5/15/19 12:29 pm - Northwest Mountains, GA

My husband is in retail and it's enraging how much food they are forced to throw away. Regulations and liability make retailers afraid or legally unable to give the food to those who need it. Government has enforced waste and starvation.

Valerie
DS 2005

There is room on this earth for all of God's creatures..
next to the mashed potatoes

Kathy S.
on 5/16/19 7:14 am - InTheBurbs, XX
RNY on 08/29/04 with

I bet the homeless would love that food. Instead of giving it to them they have to dumpster dive for it

HW:330 - GW:150 - MW:118-125

RW:190 - CW:130

Valerie G.
on 5/16/19 7:43 am - Northwest Mountains, GA

The dumpsters are locked so the homeless have no access. Beaurocrats made it difficult to be giving for the grocers and even restauranteurs.

Valerie
DS 2005

There is room on this earth for all of God's creatures..
next to the mashed potatoes

Grim_Traveller
on 5/16/19 2:55 am
RNY on 08/21/12
On May 15, 2019 at 6:23 PM Pacific Time, kairosgrammy wrote:

You know what is sad? Food is thrown away every day in cafeterias. And if a kid really needs feeding, can they have the food that' gonna be thrown away? No.

I think we can do better than giving low income children someone's leftovers.

6'3" tall, male.

Highest weight was 475. RNY on 08/21/12. Current weight: 198.

M1 -24; M2 -21; M3 -19; M4 -21; M5 -13; M6 -21; M7 -10; M8 -16; M9 -10; M10 -8; M11 -6; M12 -5.

kairosgrammy
on 5/16/19 5:19 pm
RNY on 10/17/17

If it's fre****'s not leftovers, now is it? Did you read that children who have unpaid balances can be fed whatever? We are punishing children for what their parents can't do or don't do. So, yeah, instead of throwing the food in a dumpster, perhaps we should feed the children with unpaid balances. What did I ever do to you to be attacked by you.

Surgeon: Dr. David Carroll Surgery Date: 3/17/2017 Hospital: Merritt Health River Oaks Hospital

Height: 5'2" HW: 331 lbs SW: 279 lbs GW: 130 (originally, I changed to 140) CW: 130 to 135 ish

Biggest Goal: To Be Healthy in everything I do!!! To make healthy choices always!!! To just embrace HEALTH each and every day for the rest of my Life!!!

Partlypollyanna
on 5/17/19 4:42 am
RNY on 02/14/18

Where's the "attack"? Someone disagreeing with you is not attacking.

HW: 306 SW: 282 GW: 145 (reached 2/6/19) CW:150

Jen

rocky513
on 5/17/19 4:50 am - WI

Still clutching those pearls....

You were the one attacking when you questioned someone's reading comprehension. I simply responded to your original post. You will notice that the original post offered no explaination. You followed up with stuff after our repsonses to you. That's called conversation. Why do you always feel attacked when someone disagrees with you? Why do you attack and name call, or question someone's intelligence, when someone has a differing opinion and expresses it? I seem to remember a goodbye cruel world post from you awhile ago where you said you were leaving this site because of a simple disagreement that you took to extreme. I'm seeing a pattern here.

I have no gripe with you, but you seem to take everything personally.

HW 270 SW 236 GW 160 CW 145 (15 pounds below goal!)

VBG Aug. 7, 1986, Revised to RNY Nov. 18, 2010

rocky513
on 5/16/19 4:26 am - WI

Seriously??? What would you have those kids do...wait by the garbage cans to grab food before someone throws it out? Do you actually understand how a kid would feel?

UNBELIEVABLE!!!!!

HW 270 SW 236 GW 160 CW 145 (15 pounds below goal!)

VBG Aug. 7, 1986, Revised to RNY Nov. 18, 2010

kairosgrammy
on 5/17/19 5:47 am
RNY on 10/17/17

No, I wouldn't give them garbage. I'd take the food I would have been thrown away rather than feeding children and keep it on the line and let children get seconds and thirds and whatever it takes to fill that child up as opposed to throwing it away. There are children, in a land of plenty, that go home to nothing to eat. Then we have children who are shamed because they have unpaid balances and is that their fault? No, but they are the ones being punished. So would I feed a child from a garbage can? I said gonna be thrown away, as in that is what WILL happen to the uneaten food that is not feeding any child. You have no clue about these children. I have 3 children on my caseload who have been removed from their parents custody. Why do you think that is? Let me spell it out for you. They have been beaten, raped, molested by their parents. So don't tell me about compassion for a child. I have gone home crying way more than once because of what has happened to children and you probably have no clue to what children go through. I said the food was going to be thrown away or gonna, which of course, is slang for going to. In other words, WILL be thrown away. Rather than making assumptions, maybe you should ask questions, like did you mean this? Then I would have responded no and explained it more fully. My language disordered kiddos do better than this.

Surgeon: Dr. David Carroll Surgery Date: 3/17/2017 Hospital: Merritt Health River Oaks Hospital

Height: 5'2" HW: 331 lbs SW: 279 lbs GW: 130 (originally, I changed to 140) CW: 130 to 135 ish

Biggest Goal: To Be Healthy in everything I do!!! To make healthy choices always!!! To just embrace HEALTH each and every day for the rest of my Life!!!

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