More Fruits and Veggies for Food Stamps Customers

March 15th, 2012 - By madamenoire

From theGrio.com

With recent light shed on “food deserts” — or neighborhoods without access to quality healthy foods — a new initiative shows that partnering with local farmers can help both sides of the deal.

By making it easier for farmer’s market vendors to accept payments from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP — formerly known as the food stamp program — fresh produce sales increased by over one-third among SNAP customers.

This counters some critics’ opinions that even if fresh fruits and vegetables are made available in underserved communities, people won’t purchase them because of poor eating habits.

“I’ve heard that, but I really think that people want good food and will eat it,” says Dr. Allison E. Karpyn, director of research and evaluation at The Food Trust, and co-investigator of the study that uncovered these findings.

Read the rest of the story at theGrio.com.

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  • HansiCabo

    Finally allowing the underserved the ability and choice to purchase fresh wholesome foods instead of that poisoning processed garbage in the supermarkets! People will eat healthily if given access to such foods as well as education about the benefits of healthy eating.  Good on SNAP!

  • Aliagmama

    I think it would be good but you get a large quantity of fm food through wic as well.

  • F3ral Anarchy

     i honestly dont feel this is going to change eating habits.

  • Chanda

    they’ll eat those fruits and vegetables if that was their only choice. it’s great that they can get it with wic instead of eating junk all the time.

  • Chanda

    they’ll eat those fruits and vegetables if that was their only choice. it’s great that they can get it with wic instead of eating junk all the time.