Do We Need a Law So Congress Can’t Count Pizza As a Vegetable?

So, this is what it's come to.

According to KDVR, a Colorado lawmaker is introducing a bill that he says restores some 'common sense' to the land. This coming on the heels  of the 2011 fiasco where Congress was planning to make a slice of pizza count as a serving of vegetables in school cafeterias.

I'm all for the idea behind the law, but I'm pretty depressed that someone would have to step in and make that law.

Congress says the tomato paste on a slice of pizza is enough nutrition to consider it a serving of vegetables.

That statement is absolutely absurd.

Is it just me, or do you wish we could live in a world where the basic principles of 'don't lie', 'don't cheat', and 'don't hurt each other' were enough to get by on?

Every crooked practice has some legal loophole, or someone important that signed some piece of paper that makes it okay.

The fact that our congress says pizza is a vegetable is bad, but the fact that we'll now have lawmakers arguing and bickering over just what a vegetable 'is' makes me sick.

We have these people called scientists that can tell us exactly what foods are and are not vegetables, or we could look it up in an encyclopedia. Hell, I bet Wikipedia might even have more of a grasp on the whole veggie-or-no-veggie debate.

A serving of vegetables should be a serving of vegetables. Does that statement really need congressional review?!

In the words of the ESPN crew, "C'mon man!"

*Sigh*...my tax dollars hard at work.

[KDVR]

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