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Cittasanto wrote:OK I am half joking, a tomato is a fruit (look at the seeds) but it is used as a vegetable so the usa courts deamed it a vegetable
but congress deeming a pizza a vegetable is stupid! not just stupid, but completely missing what a pizza is...
here is a reuters article on the childhood obesity fight in the USA I just saw
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/ ... ED20120427" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
I watched the video linked in the top left hand corner

m0rl0ck wrote:Your post betrays a basic misunderstanding of how the american system of government works. The government exists only to implement policy as determined by the corporations and articulated by their lobbyists.

m0rl0ck wrote:

Cittasanto wrote:OK I am half joking, a tomato is a fruit (look at the seeds) but it is used as a vegetable so the usa courts deamed it a vegetable
but congress deeming a pizza a vegetable is stupid! not just stupid, but completely missing what a pizza is...
here is a reuters article on the childhood obesity fight in the USA I just saw
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/ ... ED20120427" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
I watched the video linked in the top left hand corner

Your post betrays a basic misunderstanding of how the american system of government works. The government exists only to implement policy as determined by the corporations and articulated by their lobbyists.

Kim O'Hara wrote:

m0rl0ck wrote:Your post betrays a basic misunderstanding of how the american system of government works. The government exists only to implement policy as determined by the corporations and articulated by their lobbyists.

There are alternatives ... of sorts. Here' s a view of how the wannabe-US-government would like to work:
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/09/02-0


Kim

okay okay okay ... sorry, Cittasanto, for dragging this even further OT ...

Cittasanto wrote: No Worries I find it amusing that any government would want to dictate what nature is, let alone morph what things are to suit.

The Indiana Pi Bill is the popular name for bill #246 of the 1897 sitting of the Indiana General Assembly, one of the most famous attempts to establish scientific truth by legislative fiat. Despite that name, the main result claimed by the bill is a method to square the circle, rather than to establish a certain value for the mathematical constant π (pi), the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. However, the bill does contain text that appears to dictate various incorrect values of π, such as 3.2 (when 3.1 is closer, with π = 3.14159265...).

The bill never became law, due to the intervention of a mathematics professor who happened to be present in the legislature.

mikenz66 wrote:

Cittasanto wrote: No Worries I find it amusing that any government would want to dictate what nature is, let alone morph what things are to suit.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_Pi_Bill" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

The Indiana Pi Bill is the popular name for bill #246 of the 1897 sitting of the Indiana General Assembly, one of the most famous attempts to establish scientific truth by legislative fiat. Despite that name, the main result claimed by the bill is a method to square the circle, rather than to establish a certain value for the mathematical constant π (pi), the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. However, the bill does contain text that appears to dictate various incorrect values of π, such as 3.2 (when 3.1 is closer, with π = 3.14159265...).

The bill never became law, due to the intervention of a mathematics professor who happened to be present in the legislature.

Mike

Cittasanto wrote:LOL, I was thinking this morning vegetarians can now eat Peperoni Pizza as it is legally a vegetable

Ben wrote:Thanks Cittasanto.
You should check out Jamie Oliver's documentary series on his 'food revolution' in the United States.

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Cittasanto wrote:LOL, I was thinking this morning vegetarians can now eat Peperoni Pizza as it is legally a vegetable