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and you can provide yourself many meals by planting your own veggies for a fraction of the cost. seeds are not expensive... some soil... basically the rest is up to you and you can get a surplus of food from that.

if you own a home maybe. my land lord said no to a garden .
i could go the container route , but simply do not have the money for the suplies . containers/soil/fertilizer are not in the budget. factor in the time and i am screwed. i work 84 hours a week on my work week and have two weeks of house/errends/kids stuff to cram into my off week.

i want a garden so bad. i love to grow things , but alas i just cant fit it in .

well you might be able to fashion containers out of things you already own like old tupperware maybe and things like that.

but even if you can't have a garden you can still buy produce in stores at a pretty decent price but it doesn't HAVE to be organic for it to be healthy. basically that was my point

could go the container route , but simply do not have the money for the suplies . containers/soil/fertilizer are not in the budget. factor in the time and i am screwed

WHen you said 200 were you meaning a month or a week? I don't possibly see how you could feed that many children on 200 a month. We are careful and are fine until the last day but it would be hard for it to be less or more people.

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They are self watering, takes a half hour to build/plant/fill and then 5 minutes a week to keep full.

WIC give organic milk, or organic fruits and veggies? Umm...HELLZ NO. Never in a million, billion years would I support this. WIC is supposed to be a NEED, not a WANT. There are tons of people out there who are not on government assistance, and can't afford to buy organic for themselves. How is it fair for them to pay for somebody *else* to buy it?

But organic food is a want. you don't need to buy organic to make healthy choices. so no... I'm not for WIC or foodstamps providing organic.

and it is NEED based .

^^^ Agree with both above.



Right Bogart .... and yes, there certainly is a NEED for healthy foods such as fresh produce and meat. But what Gempress is saying and Sparks clarified, is that organically-grown fruits and vegetables, beef from cows fed only on organic meadow grass, free-range chicken, eggs from free-range chickens, etc., etc. ... is the WANT they meant.

I'm all for tax dollars providing people in need with a "hand up", absolutely! But not a "hand out". I would define "hand out" as when it starts being about personal preferences that follow what's trendy and that have more basis in personal "wants" rather than "need". GlassOnion has already provided ample information and links regarding the hype surrounding "organic" ... and it's true that there are MANY processed foods now that carry the "organic" label. In those cases much of it is all about marketing and profit margins ... because those processed so-called "organic" and "green" items fetch much higher prices than items not labeled as such.

As Gem pointed out, there are plenty of people not on government assistance (such as the working poor who fall just above income levels that allow assistance) and those people cannot afford to "go organic". It's terribly unfair to ask those people to have their tax dollars fund "going organic" ... for other people who have incomes that are not much less than theirs, but that just happen to fall at or just below amounts that do allow assistance.

well... I think there is a difference between WIC providing healthy options and providing organic.

I'm sorry but you can be perfectly healthy buying fresh fruits and vegetables that aren't specially labelled organic and for the most part it can be cheaper than buying a meal in a box. I know I can get 6 bananas for Hannah for jsut over a dollar. Broccoli is also inexpensive. and frozen veggies... you can get for quite cheap and they are just as healthy as long as you aren't buying ones that come in a sauce.

so they CAN buy healthy foods... people just choose not to.

But organic food is a want. you don't need to buy organic to make healthy choices. so no... I'm not for WIC or foodstamps providing organic.

and you can provide yourself many meals by planting your own veggies for a fraction of the cost. seeds are not expensive... some soil... basically the rest is up to you and you can get a surplus of food from that.

i agree and am confused as to why i was pointed out. i dont buy anything organic/so called green. even the WIC vouchers say you have to get the least priced item.

i was just ponting out i need the wic help , not just want to be lazy with my life and let everyone else pay for me and my children. and i am classified as the working poor..

i could qualify for 450 dollars a month in food stamps , but dont because i dont need it ..

You weren't "pointed out" .... it was that when you replied to Gempress's post it seemed you were talking about something different than what Gempress was saying. She was specifically talking about "needs" vs. "wants" in regard to assistance providing organic; you pointed out that assistance "is NEED based" and that you had to provide proof of income, etc. You guys were talking about two different things ... that's the only thing that was pointed out.



Yikes! Nobody made any of those accusations! Again, I am all for tax dollars going toward helping people in need. Can't imagine why anyone would think otherwise ... and there's nothing "wrong" with someone being in need. Stuff happens, and sometimes people need some temporary help.



If you qualify for it and you believe it could help you feed your family more healthy food then maybe you might consider it? I don't know how government assistance works ... but say if you went on food stamps and then decided it didn't make as much of a difference toward health ... they couldn't make you stay on them, could they?

i am sick right now and the cold meds got me kinda fuzzy.

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