@AutisticInnovator this is something I believe the book Vulture Capitalism touched on a bit & other Econ scholars, that by the Gov subsidizing farmers to make food & routing the excess products into snap the prices inflated because there was always a market. This is not to say SNAP was bad, clearly Walmart and co, exploited this to siphon off profits. The gov’t should have clamped down hard on this, since the dept of agr. pays for food dev which is bought by the gov through SNAP.