A student accuses Klobuchar of trying to classify pizza sauce in vegetables

Sen. Amy KlobucharAmy Jean KlobucharThe Morning & # 39; s Morning – Is the dismissal back on the table? A New Hampshire Senator will ask 2020 Dems to support the repeal of Book Booker's law of residence to a supporter who wanted him to strike Trump: "Blacks like us, we do not get away with it " AFTER (D-Min.) Monday was asked about his previous position trying to categorize pizza sauce as a vegetable in school lunches.

During the CNN 2020 Presidential Candidate Meeting, a Harvard University student interviewed the Senator from Minnesota about a 2010 letter she had sent to the US Department of Justice. of Agriculture (USDA) requesting that tomato sauce on frozen pizzas be considered a vegetable after the new rule. more counted as such.

Klobuchar defended this claim as an attempt to help Minnesota during a difficult period.

"We were in a recession and it was a bit more complex, I would say, linguistically complex, but it's a fair criticism," Klobuchar said. "So, I said I regretted sending this letter.was about to try to keep a business afloat in a very small town that employs a group of people."

She added that she had made it clear before presenting herself to the presidency that "the decision was a mistake" and that "nutrition is paramount for this country".

"I did not think that this frozen pizza with tomato sauce, I do not think it should count as a vegetable, let me say it clearly," said Klobuchar after being pressed by the animator from CNN, Chris Cuomo.

The controversy over pizza sauce stems from the new standards proposed by the USDA in 2011 for lunches at the school. These standards would no longer have been considered vegetables. Klobuchar opposed this decision as Schwan Food Co., one of the leading suppliers of frozen pizza for school lunches, is based in Marshall, Minnesota.

Congress finally passed a bill removing the guidelines proposed by the USDA that would have changed the ranking of tomato sauce.

Ms. Klobuchar added during her visit to the town hall: "we need to have healthier food in the children's lunches, we need to be able to offer healthier food to people, regardless of their money."