Eat Healthy? Avoid Baby Carrots

I received this email from my rainbow watchdog Dawn. We had been discussing some of the health risks of this preserved, precooked, prefab world we live in. Its easy to point the finger at McDeath and Fried Rat, but who would have thought that baby carrots were also basterdized in such a way.

We had been discussing the fact that much of our food comes from Southern US and then is shipped to our stores. We were counting the stupidity of such a move. Lets see, drain the Colorado river of all its water to irrigate the land. Then use pesticide, herbicides and illegal Mexican labour. Put the veggies on a truck burning fossil fuel a week before they are ready. Spray them with "stuff" to make them ripen and give them wonderful un natural colour and then still get them to us cheaper than our local farmer.....but at what cost? As we can see, cancer is getting cheaper and cheaper to obtain. I respectfully dedicate this post to Garrett Doyle, who just died young of cancer. He was one of the nicest, kindest and consciencious people you would ever meet.

The following is information from a farmer who grows and packages carrots for IGA, METRO, LOBLAWS, etc

The small cocktail (baby) carrots you buy in small plastic bags are made using the larger crooked or deformed carrots which are put through a machine which cuts and shapes them into cocktail carrots

- most people probably know this already.

What you may not know and should know is the following:
Once the carrots are cut and shaped into cocktail carrots they are dipped in a solution of water and chlorine in order to preserve them. (this is the same chlorine used in your pool). Since they do not have their skin or natural protective covering, they give them a higher dose of chlorine.

You will notice that once you keep these carrots in your refrigerator for a few days, a white covering will form on the carrots. This is the chlorine which resurfaces. At what cost do we put our health at risk to have esthetically pleasing vegetables?

Chlorine is a very well-known carcinogen, which causes Cancer.. I thought this was worth passing on. Pass it on to as many people as possible in hopes of informing them where these carrots come from and how they are processed. I used to buy those baby carrots for vegetable dips. Not any
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Confirmed by Snopes
http://www.snopes.com/food/tainted/carrots.asp