Pizza is a vegetable

Wasn't it that grinning dunce Reagan who said that school children should put more ketchup on their french fries because that was their vegetable. I guess if you go around grinning and pronounce yourself as a Pro-life and Family Values Christian you can get away with anything and the pope will support you. How shallow is that???

The Republicans Wall St speculators bid up the price of oil. How long will it be before they bid up the price of food and wate, such that people can no longer afford to eat or drink, instead they must starve to death. That's the ultimate Republican and RR solution, war/death/kill and speculate everything. ALL for money and power.

The bible reading (USCCB) referenced for November 21 as Reading 1 is from Daniel 1:16, 8-20. Note "Give us vegetables to eat and water to drink..". "..after ten days they looked healthier and better fed than any of the young men who ate from the royal table."

Given the alternative choices in the average public school cafeteria, perhaps Congress is not too far off base. Gone are the good ole days:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2iQ8THWz5k

I think the actual idea is not that pizza IS a vegetable--which is easy to ridicule--but rather, that it contains a SERVING of vegetables, which is either true or it isn't. Depending on how much tomato sauce and other vegetables are included, that may indeed be true.

I don't know if Sister has ever been in charge of providing hot lunches in a school cafeteria, on a budget, that children actually eat, but as a pastor of a Catholic school, I can tell you it's a challenge. Perhaps Sister wants to volunteer to go about and convince the children to eat what they do not like? She is welcome to get in touch with me if she is planning to visit hereabouts.

And why is pizza such a terrible thing? It's baked, not fried; it need not be high in fat or salt or any other thing that is considered so terrible these days. In can be made with whole wheat flour can't it? Bread, tomato sauce (is that a terrible thing? why?), vegetables, and horrors! meat!

A lot of parents, and a lot of schools, learn that kids have their own tastes and it's very hard to avoid catering to them to a significant degree. One hopes to help them eat well overall, and get plenty of exercise.

It is NOT the business of the government to determine what someone should or should not eat. Parents are charged with determining what their children should be allowed to eat, not the whiny nannies at public schools, not the busybodies who think its their calling in life to be as nosy as possible, certainly not some unaccountable agency of the federal government.

I am so sick and tired of this liberal intrusion into people's lives, as if the average American is so stupid that he or she cannot be trusted to make decisions affecting his or her life. If these leftists want to eat pine nuts, tree bark, sprouts and grass, fine, go ahead. But, leave me alone to enjoy my food. I don't try to tell liberals what to eat, what on earth leads them to believe that they have the right to tell me what to eat?

Even more importantly, what on earth leads them to believe that I care one whit about their opinions?

Once again conservatives are using the argument that government shouldn't be allowed to tell people what to eat.
Following that logic is it wrong to be telling people they can't shoot heroin or can't snort cocaine. Smoke marijuana. Or should the government have laws that prevent parents from buying beer or cigarettes for their children.

This utter nonsense from Republicans has only one motive: food companies that produce frozen pizzas for schools, the salt industry and potatoes for french fries requested the changes and lobbied Congress.

Once again Republicans show that they are on the side of big corporations..instead of the welfare of American school children

They are worse than disgusting

A PS to this blog post - you may have noticed that last night's episode of "The Good Wife" (http://www.cbs.com/shows/the_good_wife/episodes/77728), Season 3 Episode Nine "Whiskey Tango Foxtrot" was about the battle for food by food producing industries and their dance with the government over defining corn especially (and in a sadly comic touch placed it at the center of a new proposed food chart) and a military specialist on trial for unacceptable, unplanned, collateral killings of Afghan civilians by a drone.

These two story lines were about the same thing: the objectification of human beings. I think the military called the use of drones the "kill chain".

Food chain, kill chain.

Wirzba's words take on even more meaning: "The way we think about food depends on how we name and narrate the world in which we eat."

I would agree in general about that fast food is poor quality. The problem I see is that the restaurants are responding in part to customer desires. That does not excuse a school food program where the children are learning and acquiring tastes.

I visit one my colleges every Friday. The school cafeteria was replaced with multiple fast food outlets in the student union and other places throughout the campus. It is easier to find one of the fast food chains here than on main street because they are all here.

On a positive side these companies are now forced to reveal their nutrition information so a customer can become a smart shopper. Also, this information is on their websites. In addition, Dotti's Food Score webpage has a downloadable application for the I-phone that shows the food values in hundreds of restaurants for Weight Watchers members. Even non-weight watchers could use the site if they wanted.

I also have noticed a few restaurants now have mini deserts instead the huge deserts that could feed a family of six on special occasions.

When in a restaurant I often check to see if my dinning companion would like to split an entree. Extra sides can be ordered if both want say the dinner salad. Also, take a cooler along in the car to store leftovers in the "doggie box."

Restaurants really do not care if one eats the food as long as one pays for it. Lager portions are excuses to raise prices. One does not have to be manipulated the corporate-consumer materialism culture. One can resist and make purposeful decisions. It is hard but who said life would always be easy?

two tablespoons of tomato juice per slice is rather generous a representation, as I often see these pizza slices, which are no more than thin bread with some thin oily, doughy cheese like substitute on top, with not a hint of sauce or vegetable and often some crumbs of what once might have been presetnable as sausage.

and these as breakfast, to my preschoolers

last time, the day before the Thanksgiving break, the morning session got a small carton of milk and a green apple.

I broke into the classroom pantry, which I try to keep well stocked.

Parents have little hope of feeding them, now the harvest is in and shipped North, and send them to school to get fed.

What should I do, a long time fan of the Black Panther,s original Breakfast Program, but feed them on my own dime . . .

This means that Herman Cain can run as a promoter of vegetarianism! And there are plenty of people ignorant enough to believe that, too.