Congress Fights Obama Administration Attempts To Make School Lunches Healthier

[Purveyor]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Who needs leafy greens and carrots when pizza and french fries will do?

In an effort many 9-year-olds will cheer, Congress wants pizza and french fries to stay on school lunch lines and is fighting the Obama administration's efforts to take unhealthy foods out of schools.

The final version of a spending bill released late Monday would unravel school lunch standards the Agriculture Department proposed earlier this year. These include limiting the use of potatoes on the lunch line, putting new restrictions on sodium and boosting the use of whole grains. 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.

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http://www.orlandosentinel.com/business/nationworld/sns-bc-apfn-us--congress-schoollunches,0,2007929.story

[liberal N proud]

1. It is as if everything they do is either anti-Obama or they are trying to destroy America

It's one, the other or both!

[catgirl]

3. It's both

Rotten to the core. :-(

[joeybee12]

2. They're so stupid it hurts...knr

[Arugula Latte]

4. Republicans hate kids and don't care if they die an early death.

Seriously. That's what it boils down to.

[MerryBlooms]

5. sickos.

[and-justice-for-all]

6. Those fuckers...nt

[Raine1967]

7. From the article:

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.
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Congress once again is bowing to lobbyists and special interests.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

8. Feed Truck or Trick or whatever his name is, nothing but Cheetos!!

Good nutrition is a communist plot.

[FrenchieCat]

9. Obesity leads to death if it isn't brought under control....

my husband runs a funeral establishment, and we see very young people dying of obesity related illnesses
all of the time. Last week, my hubby arranged funerals for a 41 year old Black Woman, and another who was only 55! Both passed away due to complications of serious health conditions that they developed based on their diets, and most likely lack of exercise! These are serious issues, and Republicans know this, and obviously they don't give a damn. What's new? Hey, I know....let's give them assholes the WH, and let them fuck over us a whole lot more! That will show us!

[HuckleB]

10. Corporations win again. Children pay the piper.

:mad: