[Velez-mitchell:] Fifteen percent of Americans are on Food Stamps. That`s 47 million Americans, and starting tomorrow they`re going to see cuts, big cuts. A family of four getting the maximum benefit of $668 a month. They get a reduction of $36 a month. The old left-right, Democrat-Republican, conservative-liberal arguments are getting super tired. And they`re not really addressing the bottom line, underlying problems that our systems are broken and sick, and those systems are making us sick. You have children?
[Unidentified Female:] Yes.
[Velez-mitchell:] And you are part of the Food Stamp program?
[Unidentified Female:] Yes.
[Velez-mitchell:] And you would like to see it revised and...
[Unidentified Female:] Exactly. Change it so that we can eat healthy and get the nutrients that we`re supposed to get.
[Velez-mitchell:] Beer, wine, liquor, cigarettes, tobacco, they are not allowed under Food Stamps. But you know what is allowed? Soft drinks, candy, cookies, bakery cakes. Is there a problem with how the Food Stamp system operates, given that we have a massive obesity problem in this country?
[Unidentified Female:] There`s a huge problem. People use Food Stamps to go out and buy chips and all that processed food that most of them are buying. Then it`s not solving the problem. It`s increasing it.
[Velez-mitchell:] If it would require a sacrifice like cutting out the sugary drinks and saying you can`t buy sodas with Food Stamps, you`d be willing to make that sacrifice?
[Unidentified Female:] Yes, yes I would.
[Velez-mitchell:] If people are eating food that`s making them sick and there`s a way to use a Food Stamp program to encourage people to eat healthier, to encourage them to eat more fruits, vegetables, nuts and grains and get healthier, wouldn`t that save taxpayers money ultimately by reducing health-care costs?
[Unidentified Female:] Absolutely. For example, many of the diseases that people are suffering from are diet-related diseases. Now, for example, my coalition, in New York School PS-244, the school has gone all vegetarian. We have created a completely vegetarian has gone all vegetarian. We`ve created a vegetarian menu. And in one year, their BMIs, their body mass index, has gone down.
[Velez-mitchell:] Wouldn`t it be nice if we could do that for all the millions of people who want I believe they want healthier options? There`s a program to get farmers` markets to accept Food Stamps so that we can bring fruits, vegetables, nuts and grains into low-income neighborhoods. They often don`t have the choice to make a healthy choice. That`s got to change. The government could do that and save billions of dollars. On the other side, on the health-care side. Nobody is talking about that. We are. On the other side, a doctor faces murder charges in the death of his wife. Will his daughters ultimately be the ones who put him behind bars?
[Alexis Macneill, Daughter Of Victim:] Ever since the day my mom died, I I was concerned that my father killed her. I just knew it was all staged, you know. He`s an actor, and he orchestrated this murder.