Veggie fails: Congress classifies pizza as a vegetable

Since Congress is now considering pizza a vegetable, I must be the healthiest person alive—it is completely ridiculous.

In an article on Huff Post Politics, Congress states that the tomato sauce being used for the pizza makes it a vegetable. Aside from the logic that tomato sauce is considered a vegetable when tomatoes have been proven to be a fruit, pizza is completely unhealthy for you; also, it can't be a vegetable and an entrée at the same time. This just goes to show that the lunches being provided to children in cafeterias today are not the healthiest, and the people who are in charge of deciding what children are being served are completely senseless.

Congress should not be responsible for what children are allowed to eat in cafeterias since they think pizza is now a vegetable. The faculty and staff of the school should make that decision.

Schools should serve children healthy, but, at the same time, tasty food. There should be an entrée, a vegetable (NOT PIZZA), a fruit and some kind of dessert. These should be in reasonably sized portions that are filling but still moderate.

Children always want an opinion in what they should eat, but, in all reality, if every child chose what they wanted, they would not choose anything healthy.

If children feel like they should choose what they eat, then they should be mature enough to make the right decision and eat food that is reasonably healthy for them.

When you walk into the dining halls here at ISU, you see a wide variety of food. There is anything from chicken patty sandwiches to a salad bar to even sandwich wraps. Even though there are a lot of options to choose from, that doesn't mean they are the healthiest. I know from personal experience. When I go to the dining halls with my friends we always seem to get the same thing: burgers and fries, pizzas and fries or chicken sandwiches and fries. Obviously these choices are not the healthiest, and you can eat as much of them as you want.

We students are all mature enough to decide our own meals, but if every student at ISU wanted different foods, it would get out of hand. Whoever is in charge of deciding what we eat is doing a fairly good job. Especially when they incorporate meatless Monday's for the vegetarians around campus or when we have our premium night. These are all good things to have to get away from the everyday burgers and fries.

Even though there are many options already, it could never hurt to switch some things out for others every once in a while.

Our Congress is completely foolish. Nobody can force you to eat something, but hopefully you make a healthier choice than just burgers, pizza and fries every day.