Just to explain (Copypasta from a previous thread):

What happened was that two tablespoons of tomato paste was considered a serving of vegetables, and therefore, school pizza qualified. New regulations were introduced requiring pizza to have a quarter cup of tomato paste to qualify as a vegetable, making companies like ConAgra step up their health game a little.

ConAgra was pissed that this would cut into their profits, so last week, they lobbied congress to keep the old regulation that two tablespoons qualify as a vegetable. The old pizza is sufficient to qualify as a serving of vegetables, according to the US Congress. Congress kept the existing regulation, reclassifying pizza as a vegetable.

See, the reason this is offensive and that you should be outraged by it is because nutritionists and scientists guided public policy to improve health and nutrition in children. ConAgra came in and spent a bunch of money, and erased the work that science has done.

This is everything that's wrong with corporate government. We've thrown out logic and reason and science, and we've embraced greed and corporatism and cash money.

It's fucking KILLING children to be this obese, and yet congress doesn't care. They'd rather classify pizza as a vegetable to fit the guidelines in order to take all that ConAgra campaign money than do what's best, what's right for American children.

And they're being mocked...MOCKED for it. As well they should be. Pizza is NOT a fucking vegetable. It's NOT healthy. In some schools you can get pizza and french fries EVERY DAY for lunch, and the people who are working against that are being silenced by corporate money.

This is the very idea behind OWS.

Do you understand now how repugnant this is? Do you understand why it can't go away?