No junk food with food stamps

I was in a store checkout line. Ahead of me was an obese woman with a cart full of junk food: ice cream, sodas, chips cookies and cakes. Her bill came to $75. She paid for it with food stamps.

Junk foods have no nutritional value. They contain empty calories. There was no real food in her cart.

This bothered me. It is our tax dollars paying for this. If the government is so concerned about obesity in this country, it should not allow junk food to be purchased with food stamps. These are luxury items and are not needed to sustain life. Food stamps should only be used for real food: milk, bread, cereal, meat, fruit and vegetables.

I believe this would be a big step in fighting the obesity problem in this country, especially for our children -- not to mention food stamps would go for food not junk.

CHARLES BATES, Cape Girardeau