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Is Pizza a Vegetable?

Author: Marsha Hallet
Published: November 20, 2011 at 12:04 am
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So what's all the fuss about? Congress has decided that pizza is a vegetable when it has tomato paste. They have neglected so much wisdom in this decision that the fact that the tomato is a fruit has also escaped their notice.

The fight is between Congress beholden to big food, and the USDA beholden to Michele Obama. The winners, or losers are school children who of course are on the side of Congress because they haven't been educated enough to know their fruits from vegetables either.

Congress wants to keep pizza on the school lunch menu because “An eighth of a cup of tomato paste has the nutritional value of a half-cup of vegetables and when mixed with water for pizza sauce, more of a vegetable is created.” And can I get a cup of gruel please?

The select "committee of twelve" Super Congress hasn't done anything yet, but our de rigueur Congressmen are drinking too much Kool-Aid when healthy school lunch programs are being diluted. Subsidies on healthy foods, like vegetables, would bring their cost down to level the playing field when schools are are choosing lunch menus.

Just think, instead of watered down tomato paste, school pizzas could have real vegetables.

 
 

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I am writing this blog as a daily reminder to myself to make healthy food choices. The intent is to try to make my daily meals nutritious and consciously build healthy eating behaviors that keep calories in check and weight under control. KnowFoodNow will share what I learn. …

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