“Let’s give people literal prison food instead of financial support”

    by Merchant_Alert

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    1. California actually banned it’s use in prison, stating that it’s effectively inedible, leading to malnourishment/starvation. So in effect, even starving people couldn’t eat it.

    2. Kobayashi_Maru186 on

      Let’s give the poor inedible prison food! There are no bad ideas in a brainstorming session, but this might actually be one. 😦

    3. It is a good idea to examine the claims made or implied by this sort of stuff. Is the sole point of EBT seeing people do not starve to death? Well, no. The point is to provide support and one hopes a modicum of dignity to our neighbors in their need, as an expression of human solidarity. Not starving is an essential part of that, but is not the sole purpose. The purpose of prison loaf is punishment and humiliation.

    4. Perhaps she should be targeting Walmart and the other companies that exploit SNAP to allow them to pay starvation wages. When you provide facts about how many working people are on snap because their wages are too low to pay for rent, food, etc  they tend to move onto another topic. 

      Also, betcha Diane doesn’t work

    5. Here’s a wild idea: maybe if wages had kept pace with cost of living all these years, people would be able to afford “real food.”

    6. Entire-Meringue6995 on

      People don’t want handouts. They want their tax dollars to not be wasted in stupid fucking shit like jets, golf trips, ballrooms and fucking ugly patios 😤😡

    7. BrookeBaranoff on

      Terry pratchett wrote something similar of dwarf bread. 

      Dwarf bread is an emergency food that no matter how hungry you are, you will always find you are NOT hungry enough to eat dwarf bread. 

      Dwarf bread is most often used for a weapon. 

    8. You could just post “go outside and catch grasshoppers they’re good protein” and that would have been a better take

    9. Id rather punish these fucks who want people to be hungry/starving than the people who are actually hungry. What a fucked up point of view.

      In 2025 we have sufficient proof that the ideas behind capitalism are fundamentally flawed. Everyone still pushing this bullshit should be unceremoniously stripped of their wealth and made to do some actual work for once in their lives. When they admit they were assholes they can go about their lives with a little fucking perspective.

    10. Conservatives literally cannot help themselves but be evil as fuck. Every time they come up with a new idea it’s an immediate reminder that none of them will ever make it into heaven.

    11. lucky-squeaky-ducky on

      We’re at, “punishing poor children with nutraloaf like they’re misbehaving prisoners”, now.

      I hate that our country has come to this kind of mentality.

    12. Great Idea! But how will they force the CEOs of the mega-corporations to eat these? You know, the ones that refuse to pay a living wage and have full-time workers that make so little that they still qualify for food stamps.

    13. She really is horrible. Also, she is a racist based on her Twitter comments. Awful person all around.

    14. I’ve sued prisons and won for this. And in one case, I made it and had the warden eat it during the deposition to describe its flavor and texture. It was fun.

    15. MissJAmazeballs on

      But the same asshole will vote against raising the minimum wage. Some people have multiple jobs and bust their ass from dawn to dusk, but can’t afford enough food after housing costs

    16. Diane Yap is a fucking asshole. People *are* trying to earn money to live. *That’s* not the damned problem.

    17. Sketti_Scramble on

      Sure punish hungry poor people for being poor, yet still give billions in subsidies to large corporations run by billionaires. Save pennies to fund billionaires

    18. Apprehensive-Sir8977 on

      This is the theory Victorian workhouses operated under: that poverty was caused by moral failing or bad attitudes, and if aid programs were hard enough on the recipients they’d reform just to avoid coming back.

    19. stubbornbodyproblem on

      “Participate in my profit machine or SUFFER!!!!!”

      Much simpler, and more accurate.

    20. When I was on food stamps, I lost a lot of weight. I wasn’t overweight to begin with. When I had access to a food shelf, that was huge for me. When I didn’t, for a while 1 meal a day would be a spoonful of peanut butter and a large glass of water so I could feel a little full and didn’t just run out of food. There is nothing luxurious about being on food stamps.

    21. Not an American. I feel dirty for knowing this exists. Not unlike reading about torture devices, and how they were used, it’s just knowledge true, but you feel soiled for now knowing about it.

      Makes me think if you’re less for just knowing about something, what kind of animal do you have to be to recommend using it.

    22. TrailerParkFrench on

      For sure. You want to make it very clear to kids that their parents are failing at life.

      Fuck Diane Yap, whoever that is.

    23. HairlessHoudini on

      How do these dumb fucks not realize that almost everyone that gets snap is children, elderly or disabled

    24. Won’t someone please think of the poor billionaires being able to afford their private island apocalypse bunkers?

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