[BITList] let them eat crap!

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      Kids want unhealthy foods the US Congress says and eating healthy is overly burdensome..................

      How the system works - food companies that produce frozen pizzas for schools, the salt industry and potato growers requested the changes to return to kids eating crap, and lobbied Congress [read’ persuaded’ politicians = bribed] to allow kids to continue to eat crap. 
      Thus ensuring American school kids get accustomed to eating unhealthy meals [from the well known fast food purveyors] at an early age.
      Viva fatty [it’s the American way].
      ct    

      Healthier school lunches? Go for pizza and fries, Congress says
      Published: Sunday, November 20, 2011, 7:00 PM 
       By The Associated Press 
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      WASHINGTON -- Who needs leafy greens and carrots when pizza and French fries will do?

      The Associated Press

      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.
      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 this week 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.

      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.

      School meals that are subsidized by the federal government must include a certain amount of vegetables, and USDA's proposal could have pushed pizza-makers and potato growers out of the school lunch business.

      Piling on to the companies' opposition, some conservatives argue that the federal government shouldn't tell children what to eat. In a summary of the bill, Republicans on the House Appropriations Committee said the changes would "prevent overly burdensome and costly regulations and ...provide greater flexibility for local school districts to improve the nutritional quality of meals."












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