Now I get why some (a ?) states declared pizza a veggie or something like that? Like if vegetable is a culinary term it makes sense you could classify pizza as a vegetable. But like, why the fuck is law declaring what anything is culinary?
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Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip â¨5⊠â¨days⊠ago
Botanically, thereâs no such thing as a vegetable.
Thatâs a culinary term, which seems to cover some fruits, some plant roots, some plant stems, some plant leaves, and some plant flowers.While culinary fruits are the other botanical fruits, and a few flowers (figs are weird)
bathing_in_bismuth@sh.itjust.works â¨5⊠â¨days⊠ago
ThatGuy46475@lemmy.world â¨5⊠â¨days⊠ago
To get around legal requirements to include vegetables in school lunches
frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone â¨5⊠â¨days⊠ago
Speculating here, but taxes are one reason.
Almost all the rules about what counts as wine, beer, whiskey, etc. comes from some country making definitions for tax purposes.
bathing_in_bismuth@sh.itjust.works â¨5⊠â¨days⊠ago
Iâve also heard of cannabinoid soft drinks available in states that have (compared to states that legalized it) pretty strict cannabis laws in place. All because of some loopholes (Iâve read about the farmer bills and all but my terminology is rusty). Thatâs so strange.
And suddenly its all OK. At least legally. I think its sad. At the moment, eating healthy is becoming harder and harder for the first time in my life. I get why so many Americans eat the way they do, financially. And ethics and morals donât mean anything if its choosing between eating or not. Just so sad.
These laws donât seem to help the average struggling American at all. With an president promoting his love for cheeseburgers lol.
I guess I feel blessed to eat fresh non processed food 6 times a week.
frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone â¨5⊠â¨days⊠ago
The loopholes on the farm bill are so big that I donât know why weâre debating legalization at this point.
To meet the 2018 farm bill requirements, your thing needs to have <0.3% delta-9 THC by weight. This opened up the delta-8 marketâless potent but you can just add more of itâbut that was only the start of exploring the new legal territory this opened up.
10mg of THC delta-9 is considered a good sized dose in edible products. A standard can of soda is about 225 grams. So do the math: 0.01g / 225g = 0.004%. Close to two orders of magnitude under the farm bill limit, and a lot of THC seltzers come in bigger cans than that. You can sell that in every state that hasnât specifically banned it otherwise.
It gets even better. To get 10mg of THC delta-9, a gummy only needs to be about 3g to make the 0.3% limit. Not that big at all.
That mostly leaves smoking/vaping as the only methods that donât have an easy loophole.
Just legalize it already. This is stupid.
FooBarrington@lemmy.world â¨5⊠â¨days⊠ago
Because those culinary definitions are used for other laws, e.g. laws about what food schools can give to children.
bennypr0fane@discuss.tchncs.de â¨4⊠â¨days⊠ago
Consider that in German (and probably a ton of other languages too), there are just two different words for the botanical and the culinary definition of fruit, so you can have namespacing built in to the language
Enekk@lemmy.world â¨4⊠â¨days⊠ago
The legal decision is important for a slew of reasons including taxation, SNAP benefits, etc. The decision was less about science and more about the reality of how tomatoes are used in our society.
Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip â¨4⊠â¨days⊠ago
⌠Cool? I was more pointing out the issues with the assumptions the meme was making
Enekk@lemmy.world â¨4⊠â¨days⊠ago
So was I.