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November 17th 2011

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Congress to rule pizza sauce is a vegetable

WTF?

US lawmakers prodded by the frozen food industry have moved to protect schools’ ability to count pizza sauce as a vegetable in lunches for students.

In an annual spending bill covering the US Department of Agriculture, which has oversight over subsidised school meals, a joint House-Senate panel voted to prevent the agency from restricting pizza, hot chips, and starchy vegetables.

Full Story: ABC

Posted at 10:35am and tagged with: politics, food, agriculture, USA,.

Congress to rule pizza sauce is a vegetable WTF? US lawmakers prodded by the frozen food industry have moved to protect schools’ ability to count pizza sauce as a vegetable in lunches for students. In an annual spending bill covering the US Department of Agriculture, which has oversight over subsidised school meals, a joint House-Senate panel voted to prevent the agency from restricting pizza, hot chips, and starchy vegetables. Full Story: ABC
  1. steeldragondown reblogged this from seerofnight
  2. seerofnight reblogged this from obon and added:
    Basically a more complete version of the story behind the travesty.
  3. confederacy reblogged this from livelaughrunrepeat and added:
    The worst part about this is that tomato is a fruit anyway.
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  6. talentlesswench reblogged this from livelaughrunrepeat and added:
    NO Sometimes I think Congress is a joke
  7. livelaughrunrepeat reblogged this from atired-spirit and added:
    NO. NO. NO. Have you read the ingredients labels on the sauce? Yeah, NO.
  8. atired-spirit reblogged this from obon and added:
    PIZZA IS NOT A VEGETABLE!
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    Didn’t we already go...this shit with ketchup back in ‘82?
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  21. un said: Hot chips?
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    why we (Americans) are ridiculed on
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  28. jordanleismeister reblogged this from emergentfutures and added:
    Well thats bullshit.
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