Who is Really Feeding Our Schoolchildren?

No wonder our kids are fat!

Frozen food companies have bought and bribed in order to make it acceptable for French fries and pizza to be available in our kids’ daily lunches! This move unravels school lunch standards the Agriculture Department proposed earlier this year, which limited the use of potatoes and sodium and increased whole grains.

The bill that Obama signed last Friday, allows a slice of pizza spread with two tablespoons of tomato paste

to be counted as a vegetable, at least when it’s fed to schoolchildren. Food companies that produce frozen pizzas for schools, the salt industry and potato growers, requested the changes, and some conservatives in Congress say the federal government shouldn't be telling children what to eat.

(YUCK! can you imagine what 2 tablespoons of tomato paste would taste like on one slice of pizza? !*$#!?  I would not be able to get 2 Tablespoons of sauce on a slice of pizza, let alone paste! "Really Congress?")

Republicans on the House Appropriations Committee said the changes would:

"prevent overly burdensome and costly regulations and to provide greater flexibility for local school districts to improve the nutritional quality of meals." REALLY???!! (watch the video below to get the 'really' joke!)

Kermit the Frog can’t believe it either and you really need to watch this!

What can you do? Leave your representative a message saying that Congress has let us down.

Image Credit:  Ben+Sam