The Huffington Post has it right.

Writing about the farce of congress calling French fries and tomato sauce on frozen pizza “a vegetable” in school meals, Krisitin Wartman notes large food companies such as conAgra and Schwan spent $5.6m lobbying. And, lo and behold, congress killed the proposed Department of Agriculture guidelines to increase the amount of (badly needed) fruit and vegetables in school lunches.

congressional vegetables

As usual, congress didn’t have the balls to do the right thing (is there anyone in either house who will do the right thing, not jus what ever will bring them the most money/best chance or re-election/power?)

The argument, conservatives are reported as making, is that it is not the job of the “Nanny State” to tell people what to eat.

There are so many flaws to this argument - in that we legislate what’s good for people in so many other places.

But the point Wartman makes is it’s not the government that controls our kid’s desire to eat the “sugary, salty and fatty products” that are causing them to become fat, diabetic, hypertensive and atherosclerotic.

“Corporations do” she says, through relentless advertising and their monopoly on schools cafeterias.

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