US Congress rules that pizza is a vegetable.... WTF America

[Preston786]

PIZZA CAN BE classed as a vegetable – at least according to a decision made by the US  Congress. Who knew?



American lawmakers have ruled that the amount of tomato paste in pizza sauce means that pizzas can be counted as a vegetable.

The bizarre move, which was decided in a vote on the annual spending bill for the Department of Agriculture, happened for purely political reasons.

The crucial bill had oversight over subsidised school meals, and the department was seeking to restrict pizza, chips and starchy vegetables from the menu for school children in a bid to combat child obesity.

MSNBC reports that politicians had been lobbied heavily by the frozen food industry who didn’t want to see a major revenue stream cut off  given how often pizza is found on the menus of school canteens in the US.

School meals subsidised by the government are mandated to include a certain amount of vegetables and the Department of Agriculture’s plan would have pushed pizza-makers at least partly out of the school lunch business.

The salt industry, potato growers, and some conservative politicians who said that the federal government shouldn’t be involved in telling children what to eat, also lobbied against the change.

After some debate, Congress voted that anything containing two tablespoons of  tomato sauce can be labelled a vegetable, putting pizza into the vegetable category.

The Obama administration is fighting to make school lunches healthier in the face of a growing obesity problem across the country.

Source

More Details : http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45306416/ns/health-diet_and_nutrition/#.TsamWPL3nbh

[LQDSNK]

That is ridiculous, i am sure someone in that bill is either "You just lost the game", "Problem, common sense?" or "Derp"... On a side note, that yellow makes your source link practically invisible.

[Spazosaurus]

Well in that case, I been eating a wholeee lot of vegetables over the years!

[Preston786]

^lol tell me this thing

...but when you see something like this could be passed where they jeopardizing the health of their own children ...

because certain corporations make various "donations" to certain parties and influential individuals to make things like this happen

Acts like SOPA or COICA could be passed no problem and that's very very scary....

[Redlum08]

Another example of LOBBYING which is still the biggest problem in US politics...in addition to GREED that is...

[Spazosaurus]

Just make fried chicken and cheeseburgers vegetables and i'll eat nothing but 'vegetables'.

[Mez]

lol thank GOD i not raising my kids in that country nah.. that is bollocks.

next dem go class handguns as toys.

[LQDSNK]

lol thank GOD i not raising my kids in that country nah.. that is bollocks.

next dem go class handguns as toys.

"Mandatory equipment for a necessary economical workforce"

[VirtueTT]

wait wait wait.... so IF a pizza has seeds on it could it then be classed as a fruit??? 

Only in America yes

[TheApprentice]

Isn't Tomato a fruit though?

[TriniLink]

Ingredients of a typical Pizza.

Flour. ( Grains)
Yeast. (Fungus type raising agent)
Paste. ( Tomato, either fruit or vege)
Cheese. ( Dairy) Green eggs and Ham SAM I AM?

Total= Vegetable?

From a country that Coke Cola can be used clean Precious metals and loosten engine parts, and Tea that can clean Linoleum floors, and tobacco that can de-fog rainy wind shields is this in anyway a surprise?

So if I douse someone in Prego sauce and call it blood in a FPS, does it count as a kill/head shot?

[VirtueTT]

Isn't Tomato a fruit though?

yup. has seeds

[Q]

You mean it's NOT? *derp

[VirtueTT]

You mean it's NOT? *derp

no it is considered a fruit.

[Q]

You mean it's NOT? *derp

no it is considered a fruit.

Oh, I knew that... I was facetiously derping in response to pizza being a vegetable. Thanx though.

[Spazosaurus]

bawhawhaw

[VirtueTT]

You mean it's NOT? *derp

no it is considered a fruit.

Oh, I knew that... I was facetiously derping in response to pizza being a vegetable. Thanx though.

Lol my bad

[Preston786]

bawhawhaw

 

[Q]

bawhawhaw

I wonder if you know how much Xzibit HATES this meme... And it will ALWAYS be funny. He actually tweeted that the next person to say "Yo dawg" to him is gonna get punched in the face, lol.

[LQDSNK]

The funny thing is more people like him for this than for his music...It's sad when people can't laugh about themselves, look at Bear Grylls, he's legendary now cos he made fun of his own "drink my own piss" meme. Oh well!