It is high time we replaced the science of nutrition with the well established greedy necessity of profit. What's good for the 'food industries' is good for the country.

This is what U.S. American public schools are all about, healthy minds and bodies. But of course pizza is a vegetable, and Jesus loves you, and America is the greatest country in the world. Good Day!

Wow. A blast from the Raygun past. He issisted that ketchup be counted as a vegetable.

But I'm jsut a corporate shill, so ignore me.

Pizza is a food created and developed to a high culinary art in the US. We should eat more pizza, and make sure that people in foreign countries do as well. This will accomplish three things: 1) We can improve our balance of trade with other countries via frozen-food exports 2) Our anti-cholesterol and anti-hypertension drug manufacturers can grow their top line 3) We can feel good about ourselves and our lasting contribution to world culture.

There may be other benefits as well, but we need not cover them in depth. We should remain focused on our goal, using teamwork to develop market efficiencies.

I hope they don't forget those classics, like chocolate, corn syrup, and bleached white flour. Twinkies anyone?

Tomatoes are fruits, not vegetables.

When I started teaching at an alternative high school for at-risk students, levels of violence and hostility at the school were frightening. After a couple of years of discussion, we finally got rid of all candy machines, pop machines and shit food in the cafeteria. The difference in student behavior was astonishing. One might pass this off as anecdotal evidence, except that the same thing happens wherever real food replaces corn syrup and sugar and bleached white flour. One of my son's teachers had an opened bag of twinkies tacked to the wall. It looked new and tasty. It had been there, unchanged for four or five years. Most ADD or ADHD behavior can be eliminated with good diet. So can obesity. But all of the above comments [sarcasm always makes me grin] are true. The health of children is of no matter to those whose sole motivation is profit, or to those who suck at the trough of the profit makers.

Now if schools would get out of the business of feeding people and focusing their time and money on teaching, maybe kids would have a better education. Also, our 'elected officials' would have more time addressing real problems (like skyrocketing national debt) instead of squabbling what constitutes a vegetable.

Funny, as in those same schools, students are taught tomatoes are a fruit. But in the Orwellian nightmare, politicians redefine whatever the hell they want.

Tomatoes are,strictly speaking fruits, as are beans, peas, peppers.
One of the reasons so much processed food is produced is because of industrial food systems. It has to go somewhere.
Has anyone else read Good Calories, Bad Calories by Gary Taubes?
Frightening.
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Children are to be used however the corporate power structure deems fit. They are to be put into life long debt, have their health destroyed to benefit the big phrama health care industry, brainwashed into super patriots to be fed into the war machine, or identified as problems to be handled by the industrial prison system. Resistance is futile, you will be assimilated!

"Pizza As Vegetable, and Bring On the Sodium"

French fries are vegetables, of course - recommended nutrition, sure. Ice cream's health food, and apple-shaped candy's fruit. Obviously. - The more processed, the safer the food. Can't trust stuff you just pick off the ground or trees. Bugs, ya know... Nature's nasty that way: should be outlawed altogether in free form - nature should only exist in controlled environments.

Congresses approval rating is somewhere around 9%. I guess they aren't going to stop this kind of nonsense until they get it down to 0%.

Some school districts have found a way to be Republican while pretending otherwise. They boast widely about using the local fresh food markets - making it sound like it's a regular item on their menu - when the kids are only seeing 4-5 pieces of tomatoe once a month in a pinky paper cup - like the ones you get at McD's for ketchup. Those same districts boasting about their real food programs chastise children for helping themselves to too many milks (lilke Oliver Twist), slapping their hands, and then throwing large quanties of milk away instead. (Don't want those poah children to get too greedy and not know their place! Buy your own calcium kid! This is going in the garbage!) Those are the Democrats though. Not the Republicans. They just try to make you "think" they're serving real food. But they never really bother, and one really wonders where that money is really going in the public school district. Meanwhile the real food program the Democrats are serving is junk snack, and nothing substantial in terms of nutrients or even calories that growing bodies need during the day. They are NOT getting meals. They're getting a couple of snacks. It comes right down from the Superintendent's office. They hire their own people to continue covering it up. It's very sad to see the rampant corruption in education these days.

I will add that, I think they should be serving potatoes - just real potatoes and without the bad fats and sodiums. They're very nutricious grown from the ground.

This has to be a joke, right?