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Pizza Is a Vegetable

School Lunches Get Healthier, But Pizza Is Still a Vegetable

Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff | Posted 04.01.2012 | Parents
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Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff

The program will affect the nearly 32 million kids who participate in subsidized school lunch programs each day -- many of whom get half their daily calories from these meals. What's different?

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Congress to Kids: Drop Dead

Michele Simon | Posted 02.18.2012 | Politics
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Michele Simon

Last month, when Congress declared pizza a vegetable, it was hard to believe things could get much worse. But never underestimate politicians' ability to put corporate interests ahead of children's health.

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Pizza Is A Vegetable? Congress Defies Logic, Betrays Our Children

Kristin Wartman | Posted 01.18.2012 | Home
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Kristin Wartman

If there were any lingering doubts as to whom our elected representatives really work for, they were put to rest Tuesday when Congress announced that frozen pizza was a vegetable.

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