School lunches

Tuesday the Post reported that school lunches count tomato paste as a vegetable. "The argument for the special consideration given to tomato paste has been that once it’s mixed with water, as often happens in making pizza sauce, more of a vegetable is created."  This is because the mean old USDA is once again trying to get healthy lunches for children in schools.  By the above reasoning if I put 6 kernals of corn into a cup of water a kid would be getting the same amount of vegetables as a cup of corn. Crazy of course.  And of course it is the Republican (and Democratic) legislatures protecting their people (read big campaign contributers) that make frozen pizza with the excuse of course that it would cost schools lots of money if they had to cut back and french fries and pizza.  Big surprise in today's paper: schools won't save that much money by continuing to serve them instead of real vegetables.  Once again  it's the poor kids against the big corporations and the big corpations win. Wait, I forgot, according to the Supreme Court corporations are people too.