To: The Oregon State House, The Oregon State Senate, and Governor Kate Brown
Food Stamps are Hurting Our Kids
I want to make sure that food relief programs encourage citizen/parents to purchase healthy foods for themselves and their families. Please make changes to this vital program (Oregon Trail food stamp card) so that our tax dollars are not misused on soda and junk that no family needs for health or nutrition and actually encourages obesity and childhood diabetes.
Why is this important?
The food stamp program currently allows parents to purchase harmful items such as sodas, candies, chips, and other substances that serve no nutritional purpose and consume a large percentage of their cash benefit. These items also promote obesity in children and can even lead to childhood diabetes. Although I believe in helping others who are hungry, we need to do it in a way that actually helps our citizens and maximizes the tax dollars given to food relief.