Those little Baby Carrots in bags are good, right?

[Guest guest]

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 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 which are practically

plastic?

We do hope that this information can be passed on to as many people as possible

in the

hopes of informing them where these carrots come from and how they are

processed.

Chlorine is a very well known carcinogen.

This information from a farmer who grows and packages carrots for IGA, METRO,

LOBLAWS, etc. found on CNN and passed on to me by Todd Churchill.

http://www.rense.com/general83/carrots.htm9-25-8

[Guest guest]

When I first take my organic ones out of the bag they are kind of

slimy so I rinse them - could never figure out what that is all

about.Do you know if they use this chlorine dip for the organic ones

too? I don't see how they can get away calling them organic if this is

what they do unless those standards only apply to how it is grown and

what poisons applied afterwards doesn't factor in. The link below

doesn't work.

> 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 your pool) since they

do not have their skin

> or natural protective covering, they give them a higher dose of

chlorine.

[Guest guest]

Well, I called Earthbound Organic Farm. That is the brand my Co-op

carries and they DO use the chlorine dip - grrrrrr.

She said that what is left on the carrot is 4ppm which is equivalent

to what is in our tap water. I told her I could not believe they could

label them organic after doing this but she said it is for safety

reasons and it is allowed according to the EPA.

I will now unlazy myself and peel the dang things. It makes me sick

thinking how many of these my kids have eaten......