Lobbyists Ensure Pizza Remains a Vegetable

$5.6 million

Amount spent by food industry lobbyists to ensure that the U.S. Department of Agriculture did not change the designation of pizza from “vegetable.” Wrote the USDA: “While it’s unfortunate that some members of Congress continue to put special interests ahead of the health of America’s children, USDA remains committed to practical, science-based standards for school meals.”

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