Argumentative Essay: The Banning Of Food

Restricting certain foods sounds like it would work in theory, but banning items from SNAP proves to be a difficult task. While there is a ban on tobacco and alcohol, getting a bill passed by Congress is almost impossible when it comes to the banning of food from people (Saslow). In an interview with Terry Canales, a Texas state representative, he recalls that he tried to propose a bill before the House of Representatives that would ban energy drinks from being purchased with food-stamps, a predecessor of SNAP (Saslow). In the beginning Canales’s plan sounded like a splendid idea. First, start out with something small and not try to outright ban everything all at once, which would get more opposition from lobbyists from the food industry, and then gradually add more food items to the list that would be deemed unhealthy. Nonetheless, the bill was never passed because not only was Canales’s bill met with opposition from the lobbyists for energy drinks but also a food …show more content…
One is that the participants in the research were mainly of Mexican origin. However, this is representative of percentages of non-Hispanic white families that are living in poverty and obesity, but it would also be good to know about other ethnic groups and what they do to cope with food insecurity. By extension, most of the data was collected from South Texas and their is little research about non-border regions to compare to. Finally, all solutions considered mainly fix the obesity part of the crisis and not the poverty part. Possibly, instead of solving the hunger problem alleviating people from poverty may prove to be the best solution to solve hunger. Therefore, it should be noted that fixing one problem may solve the other, such as fixing the transportation system. Not only would public transportation allow access to food but it could also be used as a vehicle to get people to jobs, which will generate a higher income for some