good because this week the gloves came off and her latest foray into the food fight saw some flexing of first lady muscle that we haven t sfreen our flotus before. she assembled with people from washington who make the decision about what goes on the menu in school lunch rooms. the gathering was in response to a bill backed by house republicans that would give an opt-out exemption to schools who say they can no longer afford to comply with the updated 2010 nutrition standards. it would give those schools a one-year waiver from the next round of new nutrition rules set to go into effect this fall. according to a washington post report backers of the bill were shocked at the first lady s decidedly different tone during her meeting when she had this to say about the lentiling. legislation. despite these successes, we re now seeing efforts in congress to roll back these new standards and undo the hard work that all of you, all of us have done on behalf of our kids.
leaders to end a deadly government crackdown. and pizza, the new vegetable in school lunch rooms? congress proposing a bill that could count tomato paste in pizza sauce as a serving of vegetables. from the lunch table to the playground, one toronto school receiving serious backlash from parents and students a decision to ban ball that is are too hard, the school saying too many kids are getting hurt. bill. bill: wasn t that way at elder high school, tell you that! five days to go until the deadline, lawmakers set to work through the weekend to hammer out a deal to slash $1.2 trillion in spending. if there is no deal, cuts automatically go into effect that hit domestic and defense spending and that brings us to some of the questions we get so often from our viewers, bya, julie writes the following: if the debt commission does not come together and the budget cuts happen, what cuts are made to congress and the white house, or are they
government telling them what to do. and also, you know, ben, you know, the thing is the government is saying that any government is saying they want to control obesity and people s behavior when in fact, to me it looks like another desperate attempt by a european country to get money any way it can to prop up the system that doesn t work in reality. i m reminded of this. that i think that president reagan said that ketchup was a vegetable and he could put it in school lunch rooms and count it as a vegetable and maybe we could explain that to explain that to president sarkozy of france, and explain to him that ketchup is actually a vegetable. it s almost alto mate toes and tomatoes are incredibly good for you. it s francion phobia and snobbishness, the money they ll raise is inconsequence, a way of them of thumbing their nose at awes again.
some schools are now banning chocolate milk blaming it for attributing to the obesity epidemic in america. here is deborah roberts. reporter: it was once the sunny spot in a kid s dreary day. the wonderful chocolaty taste. reporter: ah, the magic of chocolate milk. that was then, this is now. with close to a third of u.s. kids overweight, nutritionists, parents and even the first lady with her let s move campaign they re good. reporter: are waging a war on childhood obesity. and the latest battle is in school lunch rooms over chocolate milk. as far as i m concerned, chocolate milk is soda in drag. reporter: dietary experts like ann cooper say forget claims about vitamins and calcium. 70% of milk sold in most school cafeterias is flavored and loaded with sugar and fat. it s just like saying, listen, kids don t have enough fruit. they don t like apples, feed them apple pie. reporter: in an effort to reach a truce, some schools are turning to new versions of the old