What would be the potential outcome(s) of more people getting on foodstamps?

Since the US is supposedly wasting 40% of its food, then what would be the potential outcome(s) of more people getting on foodstamps?Would people lose their earning power? Would people waste more in other areas? Would people lose incentive to work? Would people gain more weight? What are your thoughts? Food for thought

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It increases the amount of alcohol consumption. I remember reading a study about it in one of the Econ textbooks. People used the food stamps for food and then used their own money, that would normally be used to buy food, on alcohol instead.

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• They'd start rioting.
• People would become more reliant on the government and less reliant on their own talents.