Restaurants excepting food stamps? Yes, some restaurants in just a few states have started excepting the food stamp benefits for payment of prepared foods. Anti hunger advocates are accepting to the idea of elderly, homeless and the disabled being able to purchase food from some restaurants with their food stamp benefits. Some of the families who qualify for food stamp benefits are not able to prepare hot food in their homes because of the lack of a working stove.
Current food stamp vendors, such as convenience stores and pharmacies are worried this will affect their food stamp sales. Health advocates also have mixed emotions, should the tax dollars go into purchasing mostly unhealthy fast food? But still, more states are joining in, and allowing food stamp purchases in restaurants. The food stamp programs were made to help support good nutrition in families who could not afford healthy meals, so how is going to Taco Bell or Pizza Hut more healthy than purchasing food from the grocery store. These are just some of the concerns that people are having about the subject. Some people feel that the restaurants just want a "piece of the pie" and are trying to get their share of the food stamp tax dollars. Is the percentage of food stamp sales in restaurants really going to harm the sales of the grocery stores, convenience stores, and pharmacies?
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