Monday, November 21, 2011

Is Pizza a Vegetable? Well, Congress Says So

Congress this week blocked USDA proposals requiring more tomato sauce on school lunch pizzas to justify its designation as a 'vegetable portion.' (photo: Linda Nylind/Guardian UK)

Lizz Winstead, Guardian UK
Winstead writes: "I knew big Pharma and the NRA had powerful lobbies, but apparently, the frozen food industry's 'partially hydrogenated, tomato-ish sauce-coated, food-like cardboard substance' lobby is more influential than I had initially realised. And these big food giants have done wonders convincing us all fresh produce is insurmountably inconvenient and, like lemmings, we go along with it, buying pre-packaged versions of these clearly inedible options."
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