{"id":12380,"date":"2015-04-14T09:00:50","date_gmt":"2015-04-14T13:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=12380"},"modified":"2015-04-29T08:14:02","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T12:14:02","slug":"the-pizza-lobby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2015\/the-pizza-lobby\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pizza Lobby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/041415_0436_ThePizzaLob1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"641\" height=\"401\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Andrew Martin reported on a political lobbying group whose aim is to ensure that you get more pizza:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fresh and frozen pizza makers have their own individual lobby groups\u2026and they don&#8217;t coordinate or cooperate at all.<\/li>\n<li>This is likely because chains such as Domino&#8217;s like to call the makers of frozen pizzas &#8220;the root of all evil&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>The fresh pizza lobby argues though that they don&#8217;t just represent big chains like Domino&#8217;s, but instead all the little small business pizzerias.<\/li>\n<li>Chains such as McDonald&#8217;s and Olive Garden have caved and done things like offer calorie counts on menus or offer healthy sides.<\/li>\n<li>Not the pizza lobby. They argue that things like calorie counts are unfair because pizzas are endlessly customizable.<\/li>\n<li>They further note that calorie counts for an entire pie could be misleading if people only intend to have a slice or two.<\/li>\n<li>And anyway most people just call to get their pizza delivered, without a menu in sight.<\/li>\n<li>Republicans seem to be more sympathetic to these arguments than democrats.<\/li>\n<li>In fact pizza chains overwhelmingly supported Mitt Romney for President in 2012 \u2013 even though the candidate was rumoured to pull the cheese off his pizza before eating it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read about the battle to get pizza to qualify as a vegetable, the future of the pizza lobby, and more over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/features\/2015-03-03\/junk-food-s-last-stand-the-pizza-lobby-is-not-backing-down\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/features\/2015-03-03\/junk-food-s-last-stand-the-pizza-lobby-is-not-backing-down\">Bloomberg<\/a><span style=\"color: #262626; font-family: Arial;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Martin reported on a political lobbying group whose aim is to ensure that you get more pizza: Fresh and frozen pizza makers have their own individual lobby groups\u2026and they don&#8217;t coordinate or cooperate at all. This is likely because chains such as Domino&#8217;s like to call the makers of frozen pizzas &#8220;the root of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12379,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[44],"class_list":["post-12380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin","tag-foodonomics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/041415_0436_ThePizzaLob1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12380"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12383,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12380\/revisions\/12383"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}