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Follow Us Twitter Facebook. Corrections Report Content. Please log in to comment. Report an error, omission or problem:. Create Email Alert. The legislation would block or delay all of those efforts. The bill also would allow tomato paste on pizzas to be counted as a vegetable, as it is now.
USDA had wanted to only count a half-cup of tomato paste or more as a vegetable, and a serving of pizza has less than that. Nutritionists say the whole effort is reminiscent of the Reagan administration's much-ridiculed attempt 30 years ago to classify ketchup as a vegetable to cut costs. This time around, food companies that produce frozen pizzas for schools, the salt industry and potato growers requested the changes and lobbied Congress. In addition to this, the move to classify pizza as a vegetable gained traction because of popular, reality-transforming political philosophies on the role of government.
Piling on to the companies' opposition, some conservatives argue that the federal government shouldn't tell children what to eat. In a summary of the bill, Republicans on the House Appropriations Committee said the changes would "prevent overly burdensome and costly regulations and This sort of makes it sound like local school districts would be serving heirloom tomatoes and quinoa if the federal government just got out of the way.
At any rate, I'd recommend that you remember this the next time you hear someone say that the government should get out of the business of "picking winners and losers. Loser: fighting obesity! Here's a fun fact! If a child incorrectly identifies "pizza" as a "vegetable" on a standardized test, there's an entirely different group of lobbyists who will argue that public school teachers have failed America's children. Spread On November 16th, a thread titled "Congress declares pizza a vegetable" reached the front page of Reddit [6] and accumulated over 1, up votes within a week.
Notable Examples Many images were created parodying the proposed congressional bill, including photoshopped pizzas on a variety of plants and image macros with captions mocking the classification of pizza as a vegetable.
Search Interest Search queries for "pizza is a vegetable" climbed dramatically in November of immediately after the bill was released. Latest Editorial And News. Meme Gimme Pizza. Meme Pizza Rat. Subculture Papa John's. Meme Plimbo. Meme Pizza Crimes. Meme Crazy Calzony. Recent Videos 8. Add a Video. Add an image. Tags politics pizza congress vegetable lobbying food wings jonathan mann. View More Editors. Add a Comment. View More Comments. The latest from KYM.
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