This political cartoon was written by Mike Keefe for the Denver Post on 11/19/11. This cartoon is a scene looking at the outside of congress, and a line graph of Congress’ approval rating. A man is leaning out the door of Congress announcing that they declared pizza to be a vegetable. The line graph is falling off the charts and actually jumps out of the picture and crashes into the ground.
The cartoon artist uses ridicule to over exaggerate the declining approval rate for Congress by having the arrow crash through the ground. The issue being referenced is Congress’ announcement that Pizza is now to be considered a vegetable. This will allow schools to serve pizza as one of the two required “vegetables” they have to serve at lunches. Many schools were making two vegetables every day and almost no one was eating them, they were just eating the pizza and a snack food, maybe one vegetable or one fruit. The schools were being forced to buy and serve vegetables that were going to waste. Now, with pizza being considered a vegetable school’s only have to serve one additional vegetable and not waste money on a second one.
The message this cartoon is portraying is that many people, from parents, to health advocates are very upset and even disturbed by this announcement. Congress’ approval rate has probably not dropped that drastically, but there is a large population who is not happy with this new legislation and may be losing approval for Congress. The cartoonist seems to agree with this point of view and is making a mockery of Congress by over exaggerating the decline in approval and actually having it jump off of the chart and smash into the ground.
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