Congress pushes back on healthier school lunches

[Javaman]

http://yourlife.usatoday.com/fitness-food/diet-nutrition/story/2011-11-15/Congress-pushes-back-on-healthier-school-lunches/51223704/1

WASHINGTON – 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.

more at link...

[hifiguy]

1. "Ketchup is a vegetable"

- St. Raygun

[NeedleCast]

2. What A Crock - There Was A Piece On This on NRP Radi Last Night

Lobbyist from the industry were touting that the two teaspoons of tomato sauce on a typical piece of school cafeteria pizza was "loaded with nutrition." Fucking lobbyists are killing us...and now they're killing your kids too.

[Fumesucker]

3. NPR.. Now Pure Republican.. n/t

[NeedleCast]

4. Except the NPR peice was basically a condemnation of the policies pushed by the industry

and supported the need for congress to put stricter regulations in place on what can be fed to children in school.

[Fumesucker]

6. I stopped listening to them a little into the Dubya regime..

Once they started cheerleading the Iraq invasion I was done with them.

[backtoblue]

5. Tomato paste???

REAllY?

Are they considering fries to be vegetables too?

:wtf: