To play devil's advocate on the other hand - spending food stamps on these big ticket items helps subsidize expensive and risky or inefficient fishing and farming industries that otherwise wouldn't turn a profit and would probably end up losing quite a few jobs. So while it's unfair, from the regulators' perspective it's just another way to drive up demand for products most people otherwise wouldn't buy.
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There are only forty people in the world and five of them are hamburgers.
-Don Van Vliet (aka Captain Beefheart)
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