Pizza is actually a fairly nutritious food. It is comprised of items from all the food groups — grains (the crust), fruit (tomatoes are a fruit), vegetables (e.g. onions), dairy and protein (cheese and meat), and fat (olive oil). The herbs used to season pizza are also full of important vitamins and minerals.
Of course, we’re talking real pizza here, the kind made with thin crust and fresh ingredients. Chicago-style deep-dish pizza, stadium slices, and other forms of pseudo-pie are truly junk food.
I meant “junk” in the sense that the food police will label it as “junk”. Most of the time, it’s just PETA types trying to shove veganism down our throats, or Socialist “environmentalists” trying to destroy capitalism.
Look at the British law banning EGG advertisements on television. Eggs are extremely healthy. They are very versatile. They are eaten by animals in the wild. Yet they’re under attack. Why? Because the poultry industry would not exist without eggs.
Similarly, there is a full scale assault on the dairy industry. Supposedly, it’s not natural for a human to drink the milk of a cow, because milk is food designed for a cow. Yet the same people will eat soybeans, which is food designed for an embryonic soybean plant. Biologically, you’re a lot more similar to a cow than to a soybean plant. But if the dairy industry goes, so does the beef industry.