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More power to them. My family was on WIC after my daughter was born. You can bet that we spent those vouchers at one of the local co-ops. Why not? Even though WIC is different from food stamps in that there are pretty tight restrictions on what can be purchased, we still preferred locally produced sharp cheddar to kraft american singles.
It is true that you can get make your money go further calorically if you buy cheap, low quality food, but calorically dense foods generally aren't good for you. The cheapness of low quality, calorically dense foods is a significant contributor to rising obesity rates. From a more macro perspective, more money invested now on healthy food means that down the road there will be less money invested in treatment of any of the many diseases that are caused by obesity.
And before someone chimes in about how unfair it is that people on public assistance are eating better than they are, they should realize that they're choosing to eat poorly if someone on the meager allowances provided by public assistance is eating better than they are.
Also, as noted above, the word "hipster" doesn't refer to any objective set of people. Anecdotally speaking, I have found that the people most likely to talk shit about hipsters are hipsters themselves (with an underdeveloped sense of self awareness). I think that the word "hipster" serves mainly as means of emotional validation for people who never grew out of the adolescent need to categorized and dismiss people based on superficial features. We might as well be talking about jocks, stoners and heshers.
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