The land where pizza is one of your five-a-day… because it is covered in tomato paste
A school lunches Bill going before Congress aims to reclassify the junk food due to the tomato paste on the dough.
A spending bill released late Monday reverses previous school lunch standards proposed by the Agriculture Department limiting the use of potatoes and allowing tomato paste on pizzas to be counted as a vegetable
Despite lacking significant nutritional content, this thin coating would be enough for pizza to go towards a daily count of fruit and vegetables.
The move has been derided as a cost-cutting drive so the U.S. government will not have to spend so much on fresh food for school lunches. Subsidised school meals must include a certain amount of vegetables.
A congressional committee is pushing for the move and to keep french fries on school lunch lines in a fightback against an Obama administration proposal to make school lunches healthier.
The final version of a spending bill released late Monday would unravel school lunch standards the Agriculture Department proposed earlier this year which limits the use of potatoes and delays limits on sodium and a requirement to boost whole grains.
The bill also would allow tomato paste on pizzas to be counted as a vegetable.
Food companies that produce frozen pizzas for schools, the salt industry and potato growers requested the changes, and some conservatives in Congress say the federal government shouldn't be telling children what to eat.
Republicans on the House Appropriations Committee said the changes would 'prevent overly burdensome and costly regulations and to provide greater flexibility for local school districts to improve the nutritional quality of meals.'
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Eat your vegetables kid!
Eat your vegetables kid!
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
Re: Eat your vegetables kid!
This is ludicrous.
Does the mean if kiddies eat two serves of pizza and three serves of chips they have made their five a day requirement?
Not in my house.
Does the mean if kiddies eat two serves of pizza and three serves of chips they have made their five a day requirement?
Not in my house.
Bah!
Re: Eat your vegetables kid!
If you put some olives and onion on the pizza they can do it in one serve of pizza and two serves of chips.
Now THAT'S healthy eating!
Now THAT'S healthy eating!
Why is it that when Miley Cyrus gets naked and licks a hammer it's 'art' and 'edgy' but when I do it I'm 'drunk' and 'banned from the hardware store'?
Re: Eat your vegetables kid!
RONALD REAGAN lives! 
Your collective inability to acknowledge this obvious truth makes you all look like fools.
yrs,
rubato
Re: Eat your vegetables kid!
I heard a funny on NPR today:
This is part of the government's 'No Child Left [without a big-ass] Behind' program.
It would be funnier if not so sadly true. In my last year or two of HS we had started down the path of allowing candy & soda machines to have space all over campus. The quality of school lunches has diminished progressively over the past three decades - lots of pizza, chicken fingers, French fries and other junk foods, few real fruits or veggies on offer. And, most schools have done away with formal physical education and any recess period of outdoor play.
We are doomed.
This is part of the government's 'No Child Left [without a big-ass] Behind' program.
It would be funnier if not so sadly true. In my last year or two of HS we had started down the path of allowing candy & soda machines to have space all over campus. The quality of school lunches has diminished progressively over the past three decades - lots of pizza, chicken fingers, French fries and other junk foods, few real fruits or veggies on offer. And, most schools have done away with formal physical education and any recess period of outdoor play.
We are doomed.
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
~ Carl Sagan
~ Carl Sagan
Re: Eat your vegetables kid!
Gob wrote:"...
Republicans on the House Appropriations Committee said the changes would 'prevent overly burdensome and costly regulations and to provide greater flexibility for local school districts to improve the nutritional quality of meals.'
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Regulation : Eat your fruits and vegetables.
Unregulated : Eat whatever crap you want.
If kennels fed dogs the way Republicans want to feed children they would be shut down for animal cruelty.
yrs,
rubato