The USDA's Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) programs like Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program or SNAP (formerly "food stamps") buy up a lot of the unhealthy food and dump it in schools and food banks. Who can forget that the downer cows which became the biggest meat recall in U.S. history and "pink slime" which was ground beef treated with ammonia puffs were going to the National School Lunch Program?
During the recession of 2009, when Americans were eating meat, the National Association of State Departments of Agriculture (NASDA) tried to dump the surplus on SNAP recipients. It would "reduce the oversupply on the market" and "allow low-income families access to more nutritious meals," said NASDA proposing using $2 to $3 billion from the American Recovery and Reinvestment stimulus package for the dumping program.
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