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<http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001OVVwn1Ty5QgtBfmyB-DTLPO-xEpI8cyPnyuGP70RXZYT Z9wsYf4e1bKnDI3ACR3RSJWU8mhuwvzlKueDWyilgkw37jQIiI8nPqnZrCg55ZANal1X6XumXLMY sNq2rwzmc89ZY7stLY0buCEkAF2F6kBRosEfYBTSs74i-6MHx2JmlcD39aEKEw==&c=68nW6e7TX PtSSzuRxAJcRKEOXtsLarrmMfa7-MJqpIlDHGDXpdf85A==&ch=1IhXQTOJJoJpWGzi7HWdRMcK1 1Eqwk01xLI6qYR3xZPXIOcvth4nMw==> February 14, 2014 Government Delivers Pizza Pizza is popular. It hardly needs advertising, much less government subsidy. And yet the federal government does, indeed, subsidize the promotion of pizza. Apparently, our government wants us to eat more of the scrumptious (but fattening) stuff. Has this has been cleared with Michelle Obama? Pie Chart <http://thisiscommonsense.com/images/PizzaPieChart.png> The program is the business of a much more power group, the USDA. In recent years, according to the U.S. Food Policy Blog <http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001OVVwn1Ty5QgtBfmyB-DTLPO-xEpI8cyPnyuGP70RXZYT Z9wsYf4e1RoPmZk-JZ-shQswjRCykJfSO1Bp60gXp1a51cAlkbFy_wbhY76EFtrhNTdD-fLJDvzZ 3M2EYnTCZ21Et6vpFbbzwhoAwHGq3Kh5rD7S6I0z3EVNq6m1bJuTlaOh6cSjHADeGAWloG8qhZoX 314327f3bfJMPzmxqkmjo5v8dLA4Nagd1qJ-LxM10sF70vY_4z3eJFrwJpUZ&c=68nW6e7TXPtSS zuRxAJcRKEOXtsLarrmMfa7-MJqpIlDHGDXpdf85A==&ch=1IhXQTOJJoJpWGzi7HWdRMcK11Eqw k01xLI6qYR3xZPXIOcvth4nMw==> , USDA's dairy checkoff program has spent many millions of dollars to increase pizza consumption among U.S. children and adults. Using the federal government's taxation powers, the checkoff program collects a mandatory assessment of 15 cents on every hundredweight of milk that is sold for use as fluid milk or dairy products. The goal is to promote cheese. (It promotes milk, too, but milk consumption is going down, steadily over the long term.) And, since the pizza industry is the biggest single user of cheese, those checkoff funds wind up in the advertising coffers of Domino's Pizza, which soaks up about three-quarters of the dough. Ahem. The federal government seems especially concerned to promote the eating of cheap delivery pizza. But, good or bad, just talking about pizza makes me hungry for pizza. And yet, to prevent my corporeal presence from ballooning into a behemoth approximating the dimensions of the U.S. national debt, I don't eat pizza very often. In view of both of these truths, the USDA could afford to stop promoting the nominally Italian (but actually very American) foodstuff. Get the government out of food advertising. Particularly (but not limited to) pizza. This is Common Sense. I'm Paul Jacob. *Pie chart not made from a pizza from Domino's. 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