Yes, it seems the GOP has so little to do that they want to call pizza a vegetable. Yes, you read correctly, a vegetable. See the article here Congress: Schools Can Count Pizza as a Vegetable – Q13 Fox News.
Pizza is not a veggie, it is a dish, a pie, or a meal.
Even though the GOP is saying that tomato paste and not pizza (thought the GOP seems to think the sauce on a pizza is the only place tomato paste is used) is a veggie, tomato past IS NOT A VEGETABLE. It is MADE from vegetables (namely tomatoes), but it contains high amounts of sodium and sugar. The point is that is should not count to replace the veggies that should be in the meal.
All the Agriculture Department wanted to do was say that you had to add veggies on the side if you had pizza.
What makes it so bad is that the food companies, salt manufacturers, and potato growers (the Ag Dept wants to limit french fries too) are the ones pushing for GOP to make the Ag Dept back down. Yes, big business is trying to write more legislation at our and our children’s expense.
I love this part, “some conservatives in Congress say the federal government shouldn’t be telling children what to eat”. (Source referenced – Tomato sauce on pizza is a vegetable, says Congress; GOP says healthier school lunches are too expensive – NewYorkDailyNews.com)The Fed is not telling them what to eat, the Fed is telling schools that are getting federally subsidized meals to serve healthy meals. The kids can bring their own lunches or just not eat the food, the kids have the choice.
Yes, I can hear you now. Poor kids don’t have a choice. You people saying that are the same trying to take their free lunches, which these kids need and need healthy ones at that, away.
If you want federal money, you have to take federal regulations… even if it means that your kid will have to eat healthy food.
I remember taking my lunch to school for years because not only did the food suck, but is was so unhealthy and fat laden that is would make you physically ill… and I would eat anything back then.
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