Pizza is a Vegetable?

The original post was made by Karla Martinez and it discussed pizza being considered a vegetable. I too found this interesting. How can pizza be declared a vegetable? This is something that was ridiculed by all the late night shows last week. One of them even showed pizza growing in a garden. I did some more research in order to find out exactly what Congress passed.  I found that it's not true that pizza was declared a vegetable.  That's not the law that Congress passed. All this fuss was over tomato paste. Specifically, determining how much would count as one serving of vegetables. Currently, an 1/8 of a cup of tomato paste is said to contain as much nutritional value as a 1/2 a cup of vegetables. The Obama administration was hoping to make a change to school lunch regulations so that tomato paste would stop receiving outsized credit. In other words, they thought that an 1/8 of a cup of tomato paste should be equal to an 1/8 of a cup of vegetables. Congress blocked that change so that tomato paste will continue to receive special treatment in school cafeterias. Obama's administration was trying to crack down on childhood obesity by reducing the amount of tomato paste that can be put on pizza in school lunches, but it seems that interest groups lobbying for corporations were able to make their voices heard and Congress voted in their favor.  See the Washington Post article for more information on this topic.