The Fight to Kick Soda Out of Food Stamps

与驱逐碳酸饮料出食品券的斗争

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2025-03-08

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s Make America Healthy Again movement is leading an effort to stop people from spending food stamps on soda. WSJ’s Laura Cooper explains how one state is leading the charge and how beverage companies are pushing back. Further Reading: -RFK Jr. And His Allies Target Trump’s Beloved Soda  Further Listening: -PepsiCo’s New Healthy Diet: More Potato Chips and Soda -Who Wants Non-Alcoholic Beer? Everyone, Apparently.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  • Laura, are you a soda drinker?

  • Of course.

  • Who doesn't drink soda?

  • Right.

  • That's our colleague Laura Cooper, who covers the beverage industry.

  • Do you have a, do you have a preference?

  • I have an answer, but I don't know if I should say.

  • It's a secret.

  • We'll find out someday.

  • Yes.

  • When it comes to soda,

  • Laura has recently been looking into a fight that's been brewing in one particular state, Arkansas.

  • There's an effort there now to restrict what people can buy with food stamps,

  • also known as snap, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.

  • No more junk food for Arkansans on the taxpayer's dime.

  • That's what Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders is proposing.

  • Sanders says people who receive supplemental food benefits, also known as SNAP benefits,

  • should not be able to use those funds to purchase snacks, candy, or desserts.

  • Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who's the governor there,

  • has been pretty clear she is interested in amending what can be paid for by SNAP in that state.