Last Tuesday, I released a report, Food Stamps, Follow the Money: Are Corporations Profiting From Hungry Americans? I am grateful to each of these media outlets for their coverage.
My blog post appeared on:
Huffington Post
Civil Eats
EcoWatch
Corporations and Health Watch
Vegecareian
TreeHugger
Living Green
Organic Connections
My article with Christopher Cook on AlterNet:
Are Corporations and Big Banks Making a Windfall From Food Stamps?
Reuters story: Report wants to know how much soda is bought with US food stamps
Reuters story also appeared on:
– AlterNet (Thomson Reuters)
– Baltimore Sun
– Fox News
– Huffington Post
– Yahoo News
– MSNBC
– CNBC
– MSN Money
– The Mercury
– News Direct
– The Republic
– Buffalo Public Radio
– Northeast Public Radio
– Rhode Island Public Radio
– South Florida Public TV
– Time of News
– Red Orbit
– Food News
– EmpowHER
Additional coverage:
– VegNews Magazine: SNAP Out of It (PDF)
– Virgina Watchdog: Food stamps a ‘sweet’ deal for recipients, but critics sour on costs, fraud
– The Atlantic: In Defense of Food Stamps
– AlterNet: America’s 47 Million Hungry Mouths Are Just Another Corporate Cash Cow
– KCBS In Depth (radio): Follow the Money Behind Food Stamps
– Up with Chris Hayes (blog): The decades-long debate over food stamps
– The Columbus Dispatch (editorial): Food Stamp Secrecy: Federal government should release data about how this aid money is spent
– Washington Examiner: The New American Food Stamp Plantation
– Time Moneyland: Food Stamps: More Benefit to Big Food than to the Poor?
– Food Sleuth Radio Interview
– San Francisco Chronicle: Use of government aid for junk food questioned (front page)
– New Jersey News Room: Millions of food stamp dollars go to junk food, companies
– The International: Food Stamp Funding Faces Deep Cuts in US Congress
– The Daily: Hungry for Profit: More Americans going on food stamps means a windfall for JPMorgan
– KTRH Houston News Radio Interview
– Washington Times: Top secret: $80B a year for food stamps, but feds won’t reveal what’s purchased
– Chicago Tribune: Politicians, health advocates seek transparency, restrictions in food stamp program
– NPR: Report Urges Food Stamp Program to Clarify Purchases, Corporate Profits
Cross-posted on:
WGBH – Boston
KALW – San Francisco
(numerous other NPR affiliate sites)
– Marion Nestle: Who benefits most from food stamps? Follow the money!
Cross-posted on Food Safety News
The Atlantic: Do Food Stamps Need More Restrictions?
– Yahoo! Finance video interview by Aaron Task: Marion Nestle on The (Big) Business of Food Stamps: “Here’s Where the Profits Come in”
– Marc Gunther: Soda, Obesity, and Your Tax Dollars at Work
Cross-posted on Sustainable Business Forum
– Marc Gunther: Anti-hunger, Pro-soda: Are you kidding me?
– Grist: Oh snap! Are food stamps another big subsidy for Big Food?
Cross-posted on Daily Kos
– Raj Patel: We Know More About Who Makes Our Bombs Than Who Feeds Our Kids
– Slate’s Moneybox: Food Stamps Are Not a Corporate Giveaway
– The Packer: Do as Simon says: Food stamps data should be open for review
– Everyday Health: Should Food Stamps Users Be Able to Buy Junk Food?
– AllGov: Which Corporations Profit from Food Stamps?
– Sunlight Foundation: Who’s money behind the farm bill?
– Small Planet: Food Stamp Subsidies for Junk Food Makers, Big Box Retailers, and Banks?
– Care2: Lining the Pockets of Big Food with Food Stamps
– Food Safety News: 2012 Farm Bill Advances Under Pressure Over Healthy Food
– Blisstree.com: We Don’t Need to Track Food Stamps Buys to Say Subsidizing Soda Isn’t Good
– Cheery Observations: Farm Bill Update: The Ongoing Food Stamps Debate
– The Lunch Tray: The Farm Bill: A Link Round-Up
– Daily Finance (AOL): Junk Food: The Pariah That’s Replacing Tobacco
– Republic Report: How JP Morgan Makes Hundreds Of Millions Of Dollars On Food Assistance Programs
– Examiner.com: J.P. Morgan makes billions in profits from food stamps every year
Not only are transnationals and banks profiteering from the poor using their paltry foodstamp allowance for nutrient deprived & toxic junk food, but they also prevent them from using foodstamps to purchase whole food vitamins, minerals and protein supplements like whey.