Janet Bostwick wrote:
> On Sun, 21 Jul 2013 17:00:59 -0700 (PDT), ImStillMags
> > wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
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>> http://worldtruth.tv/why-baby-carrots-are-killing-you/
>
> What is wrong with large (therefore ugly?) carrots or broken ones?
> Janet US

We always referred to the very large carrots as "juicing" carrots and I now
see that many stores refer to them as that. My mom also said they were good
for feeding to horses. They can be very tough to cut through and can be
woody.

One of my first jobs when shopping was to pick the good carrots. In those
days, the carrots were often sold loose. So you had to pick your own. I'd
be severely chastised if I picked the wrong carrot! We ate a lot of carrots
at our house. Most of them raw.