"Moe DeLoughan" > wrote in message
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> On 7/22/2013 12:16 AM, The Other Guy wrote:
>> On Sun, 21 Jul 2013 20:42:03 -0700, "Julie Bove"
>> > wrote:
>>
>>>>> http://worldtruth.tv/why-baby-carrots-are-killing-you/
>>>>
>>>> We don't get these in Australia, or not where I am anyway. Baby
>>>> carrots actually come in bunches with the foliage still attached.
>>>>
>>>> We also get a sort of stumpy mini variety that comes with tops, tails
>>>> and skin still on.
>>>
>>> I have grown those but you won't see them here unless perhaps you go to
>>> a
>>> Farmer's Market.
>>
>> Original post IS, simply, bullshit.
>>
>> http://www.snopes.com/food/tainted/carrots.asp
>
> I'm glad someone beat me to it. How anyone could fall for a claim that
> whole baby carrots are an amalgamation of bits and pieces is beyond me.
> Just biting one will tell you it's a whole carrot.
>
> Food faddists make up the most absolute bosh about food in order to scare
> people into falling for their ridiculous claims about what constitutes
> healthy vs unhealthy eating practices.
The one that gets me is the butter vs. margarine thing that is circulating
where it starts out by saying that margarine was invented to fatten turkeys
and it wound up killing them. And yet people believe this! They were
freaking over it. It also went on to say that margarine was just one
molecule off from plastic. And they freaked over that. I got a lot of
nasty words coming my way when someone posted this on a forum that I
frequent and asked us to discuss it. I was like... Discuss lies? Granted
some of the information in that missive was in fact true but a lot was not
and it was clearly written to make people angry and freak out which is
exactly what they did. I was just angry that idiots kept reposting it as
though it were true.
I am not saying that I think margarine is better for you than butter or vice
versa. Just saying that I can't believe that people would even fall for
such a story. Perhaps because my dad's grandparents were dairy farmers or
perhaps because my parents lived through the depression, the story of the
history of margarine was drummed into my head seemingly since birth.