[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 12]
[House]
[Page 17701]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         SANCTITY OF VEGETABLES

  (Mr. BLUMENAUER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. BLUMENAUER. Congress seems determined to undermine recent 
nutrition standards proposed by the Obama administration. It's shameful 
that we are poised to intervene to make sure that pizza continues to 
count as a vegetable and that we protect the privileged status of 
French fries on the lunch tray.
  The problem we have in front of us is the institution of vegetables 
has been weakened in this country, and the effort to redefine it on 
this vast social experiment that we have going on, redefining 
vegetables differently than they have ever been defined by mankind 
before. This effort of this vast social experiment, the early data that 
we see from other places harms the institution of the family, the 
raising of the next generation, and is harmful to the future of the 
Republic.

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