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He criticized 'poor people living on fast food and pre-packaged junk.'

I countered that these might be people whose most accessible stores have limited inventories.

These might be people without fully functional kitchens, or the time or capacity to cook "nutritious meals" from a pile of raw ingredients -- imagine if you're struggling with getting to multiple, cobbled together jobs and juggling childcare and parenting responsibilities ... and are maybe reliant on public transportation so have to factor those schedules in, too...

And then there's the basic decency of it. I recently saw a meme about not dumping on someone using SNAP for treats or a birthday cake, imagining the kid who's constantly being told "no."

As for the "government paying for it" -- actually, we the taxpayers do, and that includes many/most people receiving SNAP.
As a taxpayer, I'd feel better about policing someone's groceries if we were policing other beneficiaries of government support, too. Airlines, banks, covid-era programs for business ...