"Pizza" is a vegetable

So a few of you may have heard of this whole "pizza is a vegetable" thing. Well I think that the news, primarily fox news, which has the most confusing report with the least bit of information, really took it out of context and that the have not really given the full story. A while ago, the USDA started to crack down on healthy eating. So they passed a bill, in order to for schools to get government funding for lunches, they must put a certain amount vegetables in each meal. This means no more pizza or some terrible, healthy pizza. Congress, with the help of major food suppliers, said that nobody would buy the lunches so in order for us to pass this bill, you must count 2 tablespoons of tomato paste as a vegetable. Now the USDA wants to make it 1/2 a cup and they also want to limit the amount of starch (so no more french fries every day) and congress is saying no for the same reasons. But now the US, who did not really know about this, is all tied up with what to do. We all want pizza and French fries, but we also want to be healthy. What does not make sense to me it that a tomato is a fruit. So the USDA wants to change their rule that 2 tablespoons of a fruit paste is a vegetable to 1/2 of a cup of fruit paste is a vegetable. Really, it is what it is. And we also need to focus more on the fact that everything schools serve is the same color. Peaches, pizza, chicken, french fries, egg rolls, pasta, chips, pretzels, etc. They say that a good guide to balanced eating is having many colors in your meal. Like strawberries, a salad, milk, you know. Not all a golden color. We drastically need to change our schools and this is not even the tip of the iceberg of ALL the problems of education.