Reply With QuoteAbout friggin time! Now, I can say that I eat my share of veggies.
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11-17-2011, 11:29 PM #1We Will Rise BOARD REP
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"US Congress rules that pizza is a vegetable"
WTF
PIZZA IS A vegetable – at least according to a decision made by the US Congress. Who knew?
American lawmakers have ruled that the amount of tomato paste in pizza sauce means that pizzas can be counted as a vegetable.
The bizarre move, which was decided in a vote on the annual spending bill for the Department of Agriculture, happened for purely political reasons.
The crucial bill had oversight over subsidised school meals, and the department was seeking to restrict pizza, chips and starchy vegetables from the menu for school children in a bid to combat child obesity.
MSNBC reports that politicians had been lobbied heavily by the frozen food industry who didn’t want to see a major revenue stream cut off given how often pizza is found on the menus of school canteens in the US.
School meals subsidised by the government are mandated to include a certain amount of vegetables and the Department of Agriculture’s plan would have pushed pizza-makers at least partly out of the school lunch business.
The salt industry, potato growers, and some conservative politicians who said that the federal government shouldn’t be involved in telling children what to eat, also lobbied against the change.
After some debate, Congress voted that anything containing two tablespoons of tomato sauce can be labelled a vegetable, putting pizza into the vegetable category.
The Obama administration is fighting to make school lunches healthier in the face of a growing obesity problem across the country.
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Obama/Ayers 2012!!!
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I was thinking about that..lol
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sorry, but that is fucking retarded
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If made properly, pizza can be healthy. What messes it up is when it is commercialized and pre-baked like what you see in department stores. Seriously, if I have to dab my napkin on it to soak up excess grease....that's pathetic.
I bet a helluva lot of obese people rejoiced when the article came out
And before anyone says that I'm a condescending asshole, I like pizza. Hell if I could, I'd go to Brooklyn and Chicago just to try their pizza. I just don't even the shit everyday like some college students and Americans do.
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I could just about JO over a Papa John's supreme right about now.
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Note to self: Don't go to GearsMcGilf's pizza night party. Originally Posted by GearsMcGilf
So many cries of inequality stem from one of group
of people doing little or nothing and then bitching
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Ah pizza, my favorite vegetable
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Lol that's such bullshit, but in the mean time "Where are my veggie's at" lol
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11-18-2011, 03:21 PM #11i am KING you are peasant ELITE MEMBER
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thanks got ive had 3 pizza's in the last 4 days and that doesnt include the 2 frzen ones i ate!!!! i just thinking to myself fuck i need to eat heathier hahah looks like i am! THANKS FATASSICA!
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Most of these companies are using soy fillers in the cheese and meats anyway so it practically is a vegetarian meal....
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bureaucrats are a joke
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the big food industry has as much power in DC as the rest of the large firms. the infiltration of lobbying and private money into US politics in the 70's destroyed "democracy" in the US. Originally Posted by BP2000
I train differently than most, my beef is with gravity the weights on the bar are just the medium...Thanks to Wall Street your slice of the American Pie has been reduced to a crumb.
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What messes it up is when it is commercialized and pre-baked like what you see in department stores.
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