This summarized what Congress has done this week that seems to be, from many peoples' perspective, idiotic. a quote from a news article from StarTribune says, "Regulations protecting pizza as a vegetable were included in an agriculture bill that became part of a stop-gap budget Congress passed last week. Tomato paste in pizza sauce is the reason it qualifies under federal school nutrition guidelines." This means that because child obesity was such a problem before, the USDA tried to rid school lunches of pizza, but Congress voted tomato paste as a vegetable, saying it holds, "dietary fiber, potassium -- a nutrient of concern for children -- as well as Vitamins A and C" There is debate now from people wondering whether this should be an issue handled by Congress or by regulators. The link for the site is here:
Rhetorical uses shows the graph showing the line drop below zero and labeling the graph as approval rating shows that their approval ratings just got destroyed. It went from high to low really fast, showing how hard they failed, also with the weight being shown with the thunk and the hole in the ground from the arrow hitting it, symbolizing the impact it made. This can also be used to show how well they were doing, though this is not likely. The guy that pokes his head out of the doorway and asks, 'any changes?', as if he thought there wouldn't be a big change, smiles unknowingly. He wouldn't be happy if he saw the graph, which helps show the difference between him, who doesn't see it and the guy who does. The cartoonist uses expression to show this difference, where the congressman is grinning in a way, and the other man who is portrayed in the cartoon has a bland, out-of-it, jaw dropping face, (hard to describe...) and by putting the graph on the other wall, he was able to show this difference clearly. I feel like the Congress is 'in' may also be symbolic of something else besides making it an obvious indication that Congress is meeting, but I'm not sure. The audience of this piece would be the people who wanted to learn about recent activities in Congress, and also kids and their parents as well, because this is relevant to their school lunches.
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