The American Frozen Food Institute

[T-Short]

This thread is dedicated to the most awesome lobby group in the world and how we all want to work for them and carry their business cards.

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/us-lawmakers-pizza-sauce-vegetable-182337770.html

Never mind the obesity crisis: US lawmakers prodded by the frozen food industry have moved to protect schools' ability to count pizza sauce as a vegetable in lunches for students.

In an annual spending bill covering the US Department of Agriculture, which has oversight over subsidized school meals, a joint House-Senate panel voted to prevent the agency from restricting pizza, fries, and starchy vegetables.

A Republican summary of the legislation, which was unveiled Monday and may be approved this week, cheered the defeat of "overly burdensome and costly regulations" and hailed "greater flexibility for local school districts."

And the American Frozen Food Institute industry lobby hailed the measure, which it said "recognizes the significant amounts of potassium, fiber and vitamins A and C provided by tomato paste and ensures that students may continue to enjoy healthy meals such as pizza and pasta."

   

[Phoenix Dark]

A Feast For Idiots

[Cormacaroni]

to continue my twitter ranting:

'fiber' is such a bullshit marketing neologism...no-one needs it. The more fiber in a food the less of something useful there is

[Reb]

No 2

[Great Rumbler]

derp

[Mupepe]

No 2

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[Joe Molotov]

Sadly, frozen pizzas is about all most schools can afford.

[Great Rumbler]

Frozen pizza, a spoonful of mashed potatoes, and a cartoon of milk.