I confess I did flinch at the idea of these people spending their taxpayer-provided food dollars at Whole Paycheck. And that made me realize that I have this unrecognized prejudice that the poor — meaning those who qualify for food stamps — must be condemned to eat cheap, bad food as the price of receiving state charity.
Even if you search the entire website of Whole Foods it says nothing about being able to use food stamps at their stores. In fact, if you put "food stamps" into the search engine, it will pull up a whole foods blog that asks for donations to "stamp" out hunger. Really? So are they trying to protect a whole class of people by NOT advertising that they actually do something good for the poor? I thought that was something companies liked to advertise, but then again there is an audience to maintain, right?
I found this really disturbing and will probably post more later about it....after I simmer down
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