Trump wants to regulate poor people’s diets with “harvest box”
“The Trump administration has been big on deregulation, but its 2019 budget proposal would transform the food stamps program to effectively regulate poor people’s diets. Embedded in the just-released budget proposal is a plan for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, formerly known as food stamps: Instead of getting a card loaded with the full benefit value that recipients can use at certain grocery stores, they’d get part of their assistance in the form of a ‘harvest box,’ as USDA chief Sonny Perdue referred to it in a statement Monday, of ‘100 percent American-grown food,’ according to the budget proposal.”