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Baby carrots......not what they are cracked up to be
Jeßus wrote:
> On Sun, 21 Jul 2013 17:00:59 -0700 (PDT), ImStillMags
> > wrote:
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>> Buy organic food, unadulterated food, people.
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>> What could we possibly have against these cute little "healthy"
>> snacks that can be found in school lunchboxes across America? It's
>> back to school time and baby carrots are one snack to keep out of
>> your child's lunch.
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>> It may shock you that baby carrots do not come out of the ground
>> that way. There is no little baby carrot garden where these are
>> harvested. Manufactured baby carrots are a result of taking all the
>> broken and "ugly" big carrots they can't put in the package,
>> grinding them all up, processing them into the "baby" carrots and
>> giving them a bath in chlorine to give them a bright happy orange
>> color. There are also "Cut & Peel" baby carrots that are wihddled
>> into a miniature form.
>>
>> http://worldtruth.tv/why-baby-carrots-are-killing-you/
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> We can buy real baby carrots in Australia, both tinned and fresh.
We can grow them here. I have. But that's not the kind you get in the
grocery stores here.
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