Subject: Pizza is not a vegetable
From: "Brad Woodhouse, Democrats.org" <[email-masked]>
To: "Robert Biden" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 17:29:49 -0500

The Democratic Party
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Robert --

House Republicans are ramming through legislation this week to classify 
pizza as a "vegetable" for the purpose of school lunches.

Why? Because a massive lobbying effort of Republican lawmakers by the 
frozen pizza industry, among other corporate interests, is underway to get 
around Obama Administration guidelines to make school lunches contain 
healthier options.

In this Republican Congress, almost anything is up for sale to the highest 
bidder and most powerful lobbyists -- including the literal definition of the 
word "vegetable" -- and this time, it's coming at the expense of our kids' 
health.

This is business as usual for some in Washington, but shining a spotlight 
on it can stop it.

Sign this petition and spread the word that pizza isn't a vegetable:

http://my.democrats.org/Pizza2

Look, we could have a lot of fun with this one. But the fact is that there is a 
very real bottom line: Childhood obesity has tripled in the past three decades. 
And for some kids, school lunches are some of the best nutrition options they
have during the day.

School lunches are hard to change -- and it doesn't take a doozy like "pizza 
is a vegetable" to know that the corporate interests have more money and more 
Washington lobbyists than kids do. That's why pizza was classified as a vegetable 
during the Bush years. The Obama administration made that common-sense 
change, but the Republican Congress wants to take us back to the money-for-influence 
status quo.

If you think this is as ridiculous as we do, tell the GOP that it's time they started 
picking real people over corporations (and real vegetables over slices of pizza, 
for that matter):

http://my.democrats.org/Pizza2

Thanks,

Brad

Brad Woodhouse
Communications Director
Democratic National Committee

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