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Default Welfare babies,
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Orlando Enrique Fiol > wrote:

> wrote:
> >Food stamps buy food
>
> Not always. They're often illegally exchanged for cash to buy tobacco,
> alcohol, drugs and junk food. Also, given the high surpluses most farms
> endure, why is produce so expensive and why do few food banks offer
> plentiful produce to people whose diets so desperately need it?
>
> Orlando

Because they are perishable. The food banks around here mostly pass out
dry and canned goods. Fresh food is very rare.
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