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JA Westenberg
@joanwestenberg.eth
“Do food stamps make people fat?” No. But publishing lazy classist propaganda to flatter your rich readers definitely makes you a hack. https://www.theindex.media/a-war-on-welfare-wrapped-in-fatphobia/
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Koolkheart
@koolkheart.eth
Maybe yes tho 🤷🏽♂️
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Thomas
@aviationdoctor.eth
Not as worded, because as it stands, the article’s question is Betteridge's law in action: food stamps themselves obviously don’t make people fat. The headline takes a rhetorical shortcut that leaves an unstated causal gap in which readers can insert their own biases (Poor decision making! Laziness! Etc). It alone would be grounds for rejection in a peer-review process (obviously a WSJ opinion piece isn’t a scientific article, but it quotes them, so it should be held to a higher standard IMHO). Eating junk food *correlates* with being on welfare, because it’s cheaper than eating healthier food. However, if FS recipients turn to junk nutrition because it’s cheap, then removing those FS will only exacerbate the necessity (except marginally to reduce the caloric intake by means of economic starvation). Ergo the issue is not FS Other countries have worked on clear labeling (e.g. Nutri-Score), fiscally disincentivizing junk food while subsidizing healthier options, etc. as ways to improve FS efficiency
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Draiælle
@drai
Teach the controversy! 🙃💚
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