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More Restaurants Are Targeting Customers Who Use Food Stamps

September 7th, 2011

FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda

cryptogon.com
Sept 7, 2011

State sponsored transfats, sawdust, sugar, salt and high fructose corn syrup.

The Way It Could Be: Urban Farming Guys

Via: USA Today:

The number of businesses approved to accept food stamps grew by a third from 2005 to 2010, U.S. Department of Agriculture records show, as vendors from convenience and dollar discount stores to gas stations and pharmacies increasingly joined the growing entitlement program.

Now, restaurants, which typically have not participated in the program, are lobbying for a piece of the action.

Louisville-based Yum! Brands, whose restaurants include Taco Bell, KFC, Long John Silver’s and Pizza Hut, is trying to get restaurants more involved, federal lobbying records show.

That’s a prospect that anti-hunger advocates welcome, but one that worries some current food stamp vendors and public health advocates.