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Default Baby carrots......not what they are cracked up to be

ImStillMags wrote:
>
>Buy organic food, unadulterated food, people.
>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.
>
>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/


If you believe that gibberish I got a bridge for sale in Brooklyn.

Baby carrots begin as growing a type that grows long and thin, then
they are cut into short lengths and peeled in a large sanding drum,
then sold to morons who have more dollars than brain cells. The more
nutritious sanded off residue is fed to livestock.