EPTAmerican congress declares that frozen pizza is a serving…
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SKC
Brazil18828 Posts
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meadbert
United States681 Posts
The law would have forced schools to serve vegies with pizza. Instead they are exempting pizza. Basically this debate has less to do with whether pizza is a vegetable than it has to do with to what degree states or washington should be controlling what goes in school lunches. Generally the North East and West Coast eat healthier diets (and vote for democrats) while the South in particular eats less healthy diets and vote republican, so what appears to be a partisan show down is more of a regional show down. The southerners want the right to feed their children like southerners even if it is a little unhealthy. | ||
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Traeon
Austria366 Posts
There's a serious issue underlying (though definitely not news), about business interests buying congressional legislature through lobbying, but that doesn't make the headline in this case. This. The background is that school lunches were supposed to have vegetables in them for health reasons, manufacturer's of frozen pizza feared loss of profits and successfully lobbied to make pizza count as vegetables. (LOL at people rationalizing this) | ||
zatic
Zurich15357 Posts
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pettter
Sweden1032 Posts
The bill also would allow tomato paste on pizzas to be counted as a vegetable, as it is now. USDA had wanted to prevent that. That would seem to be the crux of the bill. To be quite honest, properly made tomato sauce is pretty healthy, and mostly consists of tomato.. Much of what is served on top of pizzas is made out of ridiculous amounts of sugar and various other additives, with relatively little tomato, and very very much not part of a healthy meal. To me this screams of trying to save as much as possible on food, by using substandard ingredients and covering it up by adding sugar, fat and salt, etc. | ||
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Agathon
France1505 Posts
On November 18 2011 00:24 PassiveAce wrote: uhhhh. wat. pizza is a meal created out of many ingredients. Its like saying sushi is a meat. Sushi is a vegetable too, there is rice in it :D Sashimi must be water i think, because fishes live in water :D | ||
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BlackJack
United States10574 Posts
On November 18 2011 00:21 Serejai wrote: This is completely false and misleading. Pizza is not a vegetable. What this new bill says is that two tablespoons of tomato paste is considered a vegetable. Currently it takes half a cup of tomato paste to count as a vegetable, which pizzas don't have. Yeah, but nobody wants to read an article titled "Congress declares 2 tablespoons of tomato paste qualifies as a vegetable!" | ||
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lurked
Canada918 Posts
But seriously? I'm kind of disappointed by this... I mean, does that mean that Cheeze is now a vegetable? And Pepperoni? If I ask for a vegetarian pizza in a restaurant, will they now tell me: All our pizzas are vegetarian now, you ignorant, what kind of pizza do you want? ... Anyway, I guess I'll have a really easier time eating my 5 daily portions of vegetables, only need to eat 2-3pizza slices... I mean, come on... -_- | ||
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Xalorian
Canada433 Posts
On November 18 2011 00:24 ishboh wrote: pizza gets a bad rap. its really not THAT unhealthy (depending what you put on it). it does have some vegetables on it sometimes. granted it itself is not a vegetable. And... you do understand that pizza and tomato sauce in pizza are full of salt, wich is pretty much the worst thing ever for your health and weight? Just saying... And btw, even frozen pizza will now be counted as a serving of vegetables. You do understand how ridiculous this is, right? | ||
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heroofcanton
United States167 Posts
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Disregard
China10252 Posts
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CursedRich
United Kingdom737 Posts
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bonifaceviii
Canada2890 Posts
Facepalming so hard right now. How do I get a job as a lobbyist? | ||
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two.watup
United States371 Posts
How does this affect anyone in this thread enough to have any opinion on it? | ||
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BlackJack
United States10574 Posts
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Tppz!
Germany1449 Posts
Who are these ppl that declare such stuff? They cant be intelligent at all O.o How is it even possible that this is something politicians talk about? | ||
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Pajegetc
United States3158 Posts
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BlackJack
United States10574 Posts
On November 18 2011 00:36 two.watup wrote: Who gives a shit? How does this affect anyone in this thread enough to have any opinion on it? Are you serious? This effects every American... | ||
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Nothingtosay
United States875 Posts
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Agathon
France1505 Posts
On November 18 2011 00:36 two.watup wrote: Who gives a shit? How does this affect anyone in this thread enough to have any opinion on it? It affect us because It's sooooo funny  | ||
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