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On November 21 2011 06:52 SySLeif wrote:
Every school also offers an option for you to make a small sub on wheat bread and choose all your fresh toppings. The kids who pick pizza are the football players who need the high calorie content in their food. I don't know where all these fat kids were because I graduated last year from high school and we maybe had 1 fat kid per 300 students.
Your ignorance is amusing.
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I don't even know what to say. So tempted to make an America joke right now.... but I wont!
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On November 21 2011 10:33 Eschaton wrote:Shit just keeps getting crazier, pizza now pepper spray is a vegetable thats good for our students. Go figure! http://i.imgur.com/p24cN.png
ROFL I'm dying. Keep the jokes coming.
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On November 21 2011 09:38 TheGiftedApe wrote:Show nested quote +On November 21 2011 08:50 Therightside wrote:On November 21 2011 08:47 TheGiftedApe wrote:
You guys do realize that congress is doing this as a protest to michelle obama trying to force strict food regiments on Us schools right? I doubt it. As stated previously this was a very very small part of a very very large bill. I don't think that specific section got alot of attention at all. It was hardly a coordinated effort of congress to make a statement. It was more something in the background that didn't matter much compared to the other issues in the bill. exactly.....it was placed in the background to smite michelle obama, there would be no other reason for them to add that now. It's embarrassing that congressman actually spend their time on such nonsense. The timing would suggest I am correct, Michelle obama proposes the reform food in school bill, congress adds this pizza is a vegetable to their bill.... Either way, trolling has no place in congress imo.
Uh, the reason is campaign contributions from ConAgra and other such players. What Michelle Obama likes or dislikes is a non-concern compared to cold, hard cash.
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On November 21 2011 07:25 FryktSkyene wrote:Show nested quote +On November 21 2011 07:23 Qwalt wrote:On November 21 2011 07:11 anrimayu wrote:On November 21 2011 07:04 Qwalt wrote:
So because the parts that aren't vegetables aren't healthy that makes tomatoes=not serving of veggie?
logic=/= tomatoes are fruits, not vegetables. Not from a nutritional standpoint. It's just because of how it grows on the plant, nothing to with actual food. Just like peanuts aren't meat but are in the meat foodgroup From a legal standpoint they are.
from a legal standpoint tomatoes are vegetables gg
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hooray for more even shittier school food. But you guys are forgetting that the arguments aren't what really matter its the fact that lobbyists represent companies that make huge campaign contributions that sway the congressmen's decision more than a little bit.
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On November 20 2011 00:56 hipsterHobbit wrote:
It's dumb in that schools are required to serve particular servings of this and that in the first place.
It's your job as a parent to make sure your kid eats healthy. If the school doesn't serve healthy food, then the onus is on you, where it should be.
So if you have parents who lack education, you're not worthy of living a healthy life?
Come on I don't understand how corporate interest can stop the president from giving children the chance of eating healthy food atleast when they're at public schools...
So fucked up on so many levels. Even more funny considering the amount of flack Obama's recieving.
Edit. I'm totally expecting hearing that apples will be replaced by hamburgers in food stores ^_^
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How this thread is still open is beyond my understanding. It's 16 pages of largely uniformed people spouting off nonsense because of a bias article or a stupid thread title. Hey, let's have another insult America's stupidity thread, those are always great!
Who needs context or facts when you can have sensationalism?
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Hmm seems like the lobbyists from the food industry successfully circumvented (in a ridiculous and so obvious way) a healthy effort/law made by the government to make school food healthier and therefore push the life quality of us students. It reminds me of the health system in America, which is so corrupted by lobbyist that I as an European can only stare at it in disbelief. Why do American citizens allow that companies abuse them that way? I'm also amazed by the bullshit that Obama had to take because of his moves on the health care system. U know this lobbyists really ABUSE the fear of the average Americans of too much government control. Every little step towards that will be described as communism/socialism, but what the people don't understand is that they are being tricked into their own disadvantage if they follow that fear. In Germany f.e. everybody HAS to pay health insurance, but because everybody pays it, everybody gets the same/best treatment and therefore everybody can afford it. It is actually pretty simple once it works, but it is hard to get to that point once a country has let private corporations build up their own businesses and therefore their own rules.
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On November 24 2011 08:29 I_Love_Bacon wrote:
How this thread is still open is beyond my understanding. It's 16 pages of largely uniformed people spouting off nonsense because of a bias article or a stupid thread title. Hey, let's have another insult America's stupidity thread, those are always great!
Who needs context or facts when you can have sensationalism?
Well isn't the real story that the white house is trying to get pizzas out of the school lunch in favour of healthier food, but they got beaten by congress because of heavy lobby work.
It's like the definition of a bribe, isn't it? What people are bashing is how politics is so heavily influenced by private money.
Being able to buy the support of the congress takes away the point and the legitimacy of a democracy.
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On November 24 2011 09:02 Euronyme wrote:Show nested quote +On November 24 2011 08:29 I_Love_Bacon wrote:
How this thread is still open is beyond my understanding. It's 16 pages of largely uniformed people spouting off nonsense because of a bias article or a stupid thread title. Hey, let's have another insult America's stupidity thread, those are always great!
Who needs context or facts when you can have sensationalism? Well isn't the real story that the white house is trying to get pizzas out of the school lunch in favour of healthier food, but they got beaten by congress because of heavy lobby work. It's like the definition of a bribe, isn't it? What people are bashing is how politics is so heavily influenced by private money. Being able to buy the support of the congress takes away the point and the legitimacy of a democracy.
Yeah but it's a constitutional right to bribe politicians so long as it is not an explicit quid pro quo.
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So two spoonfuls of a liquid/paste based fruit allows you to pass a food as a vegetable?
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My god, the OP updated his OP to claim that his title wasn't misleading, and he included a post which never once says that pizza was defined as a vegetable.
They simply said pizza CONTAINED A SERVING OF VEGETABLES. My god are people really not understanding this? We can debate all we want about the whether or not tomato paste is healthy or not. That doesn't change the fact that the title of the thread is misleading. Pizza is not being defined as a fucking vegetable.
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Isnt it great how people who dont have the slightest clue about proper nutrition get to make life changing decisions for the youths of our country?
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So wait, all that pizza that made me fat was not the reason?!?!?! Thank you america! This is actually one of the more stupid things I have heard because I hate to admit it but I am one of those kids who suffered from this bull shit, it took a lot of work getting to a health weight because of the crap that I was never told not to eat.
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BAHHAHAHAHA. Effing LOL. The last thing America needs to convince itself is that fat and carbs constitutes ANYTHING healthy.
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On November 24 2011 12:07 MuATaran wrote:
So wait, all that pizza that made me fat was not the reason?!?!?! Thank you america! This is actually one of the more stupid things I have heard because I hate to admit it but I am one of those kids who suffered from this bull shit, it took a lot of work getting to a health weight because of the crap that I was never told not to eat.
Wow.... just wow....
You really need government to hold your hand to tell you that pizza is not a very healthy food? Come on now... You weren't living under a rock, and you don't lack common sense do you?
I guess you just want to blame your weight on someone other than yourself. If you want to blame anyone, maybe blame your parents for not teaching you that eating healthy is important. No offense, that's just how it sounds when someone says "no one told me not to eat pizza." This is why we have nanny governments and disclaimers that say "do not put the KY jelly on bread, this is not for eating."
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On November 24 2011 09:09 HunterX11 wrote:Show nested quote +On November 24 2011 09:02 Euronyme wrote:On November 24 2011 08:29 I_Love_Bacon wrote:
How this thread is still open is beyond my understanding. It's 16 pages of largely uniformed people spouting off nonsense because of a bias article or a stupid thread title. Hey, let's have another insult America's stupidity thread, those are always great!
Who needs context or facts when you can have sensationalism? Well isn't the real story that the white house is trying to get pizzas out of the school lunch in favour of healthier food, but they got beaten by congress because of heavy lobby work. It's like the definition of a bribe, isn't it? What people are bashing is how politics is so heavily influenced by private money. Being able to buy the support of the congress takes away the point and the legitimacy of a democracy. Yeah but it's a constitutional right to bribe politicians so long as it is not an explicit quid pro quo.
Speaking of "constitutional", I would argue that this "congressional super committee" that made this decision is unconstitutional in and of itself. Seems like a way for public officials to avoid having scars on their public voting records on sensitive and controversial subjects that could threaten their re-election.
This wasn't just about pizza either, french fries and whole grain foods were also "on the menu".
Another reason why this is so ridiculous is that this "super committee" hasn't been able to agree on anything so far, except where special interest bribes are concerned (and at the expense of school nutrition).
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-november-16-2011/superbad
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