Moby—musician, DJ, and vegan restaurant owner—apparently has a lot of opinions about what people should eat. Specifically poor people. In an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal that was published on Sunday, he argues that the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) should support only healthy food. He suggests that SNAP shouldn’t pay for processed food like meat and cheese, or junk food like candy.
Obviously, the op-ed didn’t go over well. On Twitter, people roasted Moby’s article.
my official response to moby’s wall street journal article about food stamps pic.twitter.com/KSabeLbWye
— Mira Gonzalez (@miragonz) April 10, 2018
https://twitter.com/RacismFactory/status/983746241459838976
Congratulations to Moby on his new fellowship at the American Enterprise Institute pic.twitter.com/d7Y7GWXSdn
— Kate Aronoff (@KateAronoff) April 10, 2018
I agree that food stamps shouldn't be used to pay for any Moby music made in the last 19 years.
— Joseph Fink, 👻🎃healthcare is a human right🎃👻 (@PlanetofFinks) April 10, 2018
Hey, Moby here, the bald weakling who looks like he’d have psychic powers in an anime — anyways, here’s some nutritional advice
— mike ginn (@shutupmikeginn) April 11, 2018
Many criticized Moby for wanting to make the lives of poor people even more difficult:
https://twitter.com/fart/status/983740656609734656
https://twitter.com/ChurchCarlton/status/983874829882413056
Moby (plucking and individually steaming each kernel from a corn cob): Poor people aren’t sad enough
— pixelatedboat aka “mr tweets” (@pixelatedboat) April 11, 2018
Although Moby grew up with a mother who used food stamps, he didn’t seem to see that it was a bad idea to tell poor people what they should eat.
https://twitter.com/elonjames/status/983743685803290624
The op-ed also reignited the internet’s interest in the long-running feud between Moby and Eminem. Although Moby spoke highly of the rapper in a Reddit AMA a few years ago, the internet seems to think that Eminem has now won.
— Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein) April 11, 2018
Wow Eminem was right about Moby
— Thaddeus Curly Gammelthorp (@angelaliz_) April 10, 2018