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3:41 am
May 24, 2012
"We can't let congress get away with saying that Pizza is a vegetable!"
Deborah Szekely
Get Up to Speed on Pizza being called a vegetable:
http://www.foxnews.com/health/2011/11/17/pizza-as-vegetable-congress-proposes...
Background
This Plant Your Dream Blog was started the evening of May 23, 2012, one day after returning from Rancho La Puerta and the 2nd Festival of Traditional Medicine of the Americas, May 18-20, 2012.
It was inspired when I heard, Deborah Szekely speak Monday evening in the Oaktree Gym of the Ranch. The Ranch celebrated its 73rd birthday, this year. Rancho La Puerta is a testament that anyone who has a dream and connects their dream with our beloved Mother Earth, can succeed.
More on this story later...
For now, I want to say, Deborah Szekely, who is called the Godmother of Wellness, has been my personal inspiration for more since the early 80's when I first met her husband, the Professor Edmond Bordeaux Szekely.
Many know the professor as a scholar and a Doctor. He was the co-founder of Rancho La Puerta; however, if it had not been for his young and beautiful wife, Deborah, his visions would have been impossible to fulfill.
It takes a good woman to fulfill a man.
Like the Professor, I too have many visions, and I am lucky, at the beginning of the second half of my life, at the age of 64, to also have a younger woman in my life who I love very much.
Around my birthday of last year, I began to have visions of wanting to make friends with the ancient wheat called KAMUT (R) Khorasan wheat. This was from my friendship with Mr. Robert Quinn, who has been responsible for saving and helping to popularize this most wonderful grain.
It was in early February of 2012, that another remarkable event happened. I was introduced to a package of Non GMO San Marzano tomato Seeds that were a gift from the Baker Creek Rare Seed Company to the California Right to Know Label GMOs Political Initiative Campaign.
San Marzano tomatoes are a very popular tomato used to make Pizza Sauce.
Thus in the early morning hours one winter day was born an idea: Grow a Healthier Pizza.
I thought it would be a good idea to Grow a Healthier Pizza.
This was based on a great plan I have. The plan is that each and every person in the USA become a Gardener.
All I am asking is that each person grow one pot of wheat and tomatoes.
All I am asking is that each and every person in the USA regain their confidence that they can grow a bit of their own food.
I am a great admirer of the USDA and its Organic Sector and program called the National Organic Program INOP). I am a member of the Organic Trade Association. Numbers of our members spoke at the USDA headquarters September 20, 2011. I was among these members.
The Inspiration of Deborah Szekely of May 21, 2012
It was on the evening of May 21, 2012, that I learned from listening to Deborah Szekely, the co-founder of Rancho La Puerta, that Pizza had been a topic of national conversation since last November 2011.
It was from the talk of Deborah Szekely that I first learned that Pizza was being considered a Vegetable.
This Plant Your Dream Blog is my research on this topic.
I had no idea that when this idea came into my head, and my workshop to be given at the National Heirloom Exposition, September 11,12 & 13, 2012, entitled "Grow a Healthier Pizza, that Pizza was in the national conversation.
So, here is my preliminary research on this topic, "Pizza is a Vegetable."
Leslie Goldman
Your Enchanted Gardener
San Diego, California
May 24, 2012
4:04 am
Watch Videos here on this story about Pizza as Vegetable
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/16/pizza-vegetable-school-lunches-lobby...
Where did the line Pizza is not a Vegetable come from?
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9:16 pm
May 23, 2012
What did Congress actually say?
"The bill also would allow tomato paste on pizzas to be counted as a vegetable."
A congressional committee is pushing for the move and to keep french fries on school lunch lines in a fightback against an Obama administration proposal to make school lunches healthier.
The final version of a spending bill released late Monday would unravel school lunch standards the Agriculture Department proposed earlier this year which limits the use of potatoes and delays limits on sodium and a requirement to boost whole grains.
"The bill also would allow tomato paste on pizzas to be counted as a vegetable."
November 19. 2012
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2062056/Pizza-vegetable--covered-toma...
The land where pizza is one of your five-a-day… because it is covered in tomato paste
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
UPDATED: 10:38 EST, 19 November 2011
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It has given us the iced doughnut, the burger and the fattest people on Earth.
But now America is outdoing even itself when it comes to unhealthy food, by trying to claim pizza is a vegetable.
A school lunches Bill going before Congress aims to reclassify the junk food due to the tomato paste on the dough.
Guideline reversal: A spending bill released late Monday reverses previous school lunch standards proposed by the Agriculture Department limiting the use of potatoes and allowing tomato paste on pizzas to be counted as a vegetable
Despite lacking significant nutritional content, this thin coating would be enough for pizza to go towards a daily count of fruit and vegetables.
The move has been derided as a cost-cutting drive so the U.S. government will not have to spend so much on fresh food for school lunches. Subsidised school meals must include a certain amount of vegetables.
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A congressional committee is pushing for the move and to keep french fries on school lunch lines in a fightback against an Obama administration proposal to make school lunches healthier.
The final version of a spending bill released late Monday would unravel school lunch standards the Agriculture Department proposed earlier this year which limits the use of potatoes and delays limits on sodium and a requirement to boost whole grains.
The bill also would allow tomato paste on pizzas to be counted as a vegetable.
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.
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.'
Pro veggies: First Lady Michelle Obama has made healthy eating a top issue for her, promoting a balanced meal with plenty of vegetables to young children which some feel may slouch with Congress' new guidelines
School districts had said some of the USDA requirements went too far and cost too much when budgets are extremely tight.
Schools have long taken broad instructions from the government on what they can serve in federally subsidized meals that are served free or at reduced price to low-income children.
But some schools have balked at government attempts to tell them exactly what foods they can't serve.
Fighting for fries: The Senate voted last month to block limiting potato in their version of healthy school lunches
Reacting to that criticism, House Republicans had urged USDA to completely rewrite the standards in their version of the bill passed in June.
The Senate last month voted to block the potato limits in their version.
Neither version included the language on tomato paste, sodium or whole grains, which was added by House-Senate negotiators on the bill.
The school lunch proposal was based on 2009 recommendations by the Institute of Medicine, the health arm of the National Academy of Sciences.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said they were needed to reduce childhood obesity and future health care costs.
Nutrition advocate Margo Wootan of the Center for Science in the Public Interest said Congress's proposed changes will keep schools from serving a wider array of vegetables.
Children already get enough pizza and potatoes, she says.
Garden education: Mrs Obama, who has invited local school children to help with the White House's garden, has pushed for healthier school lunches while some school districts have said the USDA requirements have gone too far and cost too much
It would also slow efforts to make pizzas — a longtime standby on school lunch lines — healthier, with whole grain crusts and lower levels of sodium.
'They are making sure that two of the biggest problems in the school lunch program, pizza and french fries, are untouched,' she said.
A group of retired generals advocating for healthier school lunches also criticized the spending bill.
The group, called Mission: Readiness has called poor nutrition in school lunches a national security issue because obesity is the leading medical disqualifier for military service.
'We are outraged that Congress is seriously considering language that would effectively categorize pizza as a vegetable in the school lunch program,' Amy Dawson Taggart, the director of the group, said in a letter to members of Congress before the final plan was released.
'It doesn't take an advanced degree in nutrition to call this a national disgrace.'
Specifically, the provisions would:
• Block the Agriculture Department from limiting starchy vegetables, including corn and peas, to two servings a week. The rule was intended to cut down on french fries, which some schools serve daily.
• Allow USDA to count two tablespoons of tomato paste as a vegetable, as it does now. The department had attempted to require that only a half-cup of tomato paste could be considered a vegetable — too much to put on a pizza. Federally subsidized lunches must have a certain number of vegetables to be served.
• Require further study on long-term sodium reduction requirements set forth by the USDA guidelines.
• Require USDA to define 'whole grains' before they regulate them. The rules would require schools to use more whole grains.
Food companies who have fought the USDA standards say they were too strict and neglected the nutrients that potatoes, other starchy vegetables and tomato paste do offer.
'This agreement ensures that nutrient-rich vegetables such as potatoes, corn and peas will remain part of a balanced, healthy diet in federally funded school meals and recognizes the significant amounts of potassium, fiber and vitamins A and C provided by tomato paste, ensuring that students may continue to enjoy healthy meals such as pizza and pasta,' said Kraig Naasz, president of the American Frozen Food Institute.
The school lunch provisions are part of a final House-Senate compromise on a $182 billion measure would fund the day-to-day operations of the departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Justice, Transportation and Housing and Urban Development.
Both the House and the Senate are expected to vote on the bill this week and send it to President Barack Obama.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2062056/Pizza-vegetable--covered-toma...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2062056/Pizza-vegetable--covered-toma...
Good Story about the Pizza as a Vegetable issue
November 17, 2012
Nutrition advocate Margo Wootan of the Center for Science in the Public Interest said Congress's proposed changes will keep schools from serving a wider array of vegetables.
Children already get enough pizza and potatoes, she says. It also would slow efforts to make pizzas - a longtime standby on school lunch lines - healthier, with whole grain crusts and lower sodium levels.
"They are making sure that two of the biggest problems in the school lunch program, pizza and french fries, are untouched," she said.
A group of retired generals advocating for healthier school lunches also criticized the spending bill. The group, called Mission: Readiness, has called poor nutrition in school lunches a national security issue because obesity is the leading medical disqualifier for military service.
"We are outraged that Congress is seriously considering language that would effectively categorize pizza as a vegetable in the school lunch program," Amy Dawson Taggart, the director of the group, said in a letter to lawmakers before the final bill was released. "It doesn't take an advanced degree in nutrition to call this a national disgrace."
Specifically, the bill would:
- Block the Agriculture Department from limiting starchy vegetables, including corn and peas, to two servings a week. The rule was intended to cut down on french fries, which many schools serve daily.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/health/2011/11/17/pizza-as-vegetable-congress-proposes...
http://www.foxnews.com/health/2011/11/17/pizza-as-vegetable-congress-proposes...
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal/2011_11/tomato_paste_like_k...
VIDEO GOOD ON PIZZA AS A VEGETABLE
http://www.metatube.com/en/videos/88095/Out-Of-Control-Congress-Deems-Pizza-A...
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