U.S. House Could Consider Cutting “Pizza-as-Vegetable Provision”

May 15, 2012 | 11:45 AM

The battle over school lunches continues. Earlier this year, Congress squashed the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s desire to end the counting of a slice of pizza as a serving of vegetables. Now at least U.S. Rep. Jared Polis, a Colorado Democrat, wants to revisit the issue.

Source: Edweek
Via: Education Week

Polis’ SLICE Act—School Lunch Improvements for Children’s Education—would restore USDA’s authority to 1/8 of a cup of tomato paste as 1/8 of a cup, instead of half of a cup. It would also give the USDA the power to implement reductions in sodium in school lunches and boost the amount of whole grains required in school meals, other tweaks Congress made last year to the agency’s plans.

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