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Robert Paarlberg1, Dariush Mozaffarian2, Renata Micha2
1Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Cambridge, USA.
Abstract:
Participants in SNAP have always been allowed to use their taxpayer-funded benefit to purchase Sugar Sweetened Beverages (SSBs). Despite an acute public health crisis surrounding the consumption of unhealthy products including SSBs, especially among the low-income citizens who also qualify for SNAP benefits, this policy has yet to be changed. Interviews with policy participants in Washington, D.C., reveal that change is being blocked by a culture of "personal responsibility" in America, plus three specific political forces: corporate lobbying primarily by the beverage and food retail industries; a desire by liberals to defend SNAP as income support for the poor even if nutrition outcomes are sub-optimal; and institutional inertia within the Department of Agriculture and the agricultural committees of Congress. In the 2018 farm bill debate, this "iron triangle" of bipartisan resistance to change was strong enough to block even a pilot study of SSB restrictions in SNAP.
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