Reply #8: I would absolutely agree, if good grocers and farmers markets were available to everyone. [View All]

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The exception in the law is primarily to serve those who don't have places in which to prepare or store food.

"... serve disabled, elderly and homeless people, USDA spokeswoman Jean Daniel said."

Many disabled and elderly people live in places where they can neither store nor prepare food. This sucks, for a bunch of reasons, but it's America. The homeless, of course, don't even have the option of places that might let them store food and cook. And one of the purposes of the food stamp program is to get nutrition to these populations, who often otherwise have either institutional food or nothing.

And, of course, being America, if such a loophole for exploitative corporations exists, they will start pushing shipping containers of corruption through it.

If someone can figure out how to transport the homeless between nice grocers and farmers' markets and the places they have to hang out to get money (whether begging or waiting for temp labor) in a way that won't cost anything, a lot of people would appreciate it.