Last week, Congress blocked a USDA proposal that would've required more tomato sauce on pizzas for it to be classified as a vegetable when served in school cafeterias. That's right, they're really trying to say that pizza is a vegetable because it has tomato sauce on it. Never mind the fact that tomatoes belong to the fruit family, and that the pizza they serve kids is barely pizza.
So much for stopping childhood obesity.
[via The Guardian UK]
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note November 21st, 2011 at 10:39 AM
This story is misleading. From the Washington Post (http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/did-congress-declare-pizza-as-a-vegetable-not-exactly/2011/11/20/gIQABXgmhN_blog.html): Congress didn’t declare pizza to be a vegetable. And, from a strictly nutritional standpoint, there’s decent evidence that lawmakers didn’t exactly bungle this decision. Let’s revisit the facts: Despite what one might expect from the headlines, if you scour the agriculture appropriations bill, referenced in numerous stories, you won’t find a single mention of the word “pizza,” or even “vegetable,” for that matter.