Keep in mind that 'Fast Food Nation' is primarily PETA propaganda. I'd be at the principals office in a flash if that was shown at school without my prior knowledge.
I just looked up 'The Omnivore's Dilemma' on Amazon.com, and browsed through what was available on line. I spotted this in the first couple pages, 'and "baby" carrots machine-lathed into neatly tapered torpedos'. I'm sorry, but if the author has so little knowledge about baby carrots then I'd doubt if he knew what he was writing about in the rest of the book. Baby carrots are not 'babies', they are mature carrots from varieties bred to grow to a small size. Planted at a high, uniform population and harvested in a timely manner, they will be uniformly small. Ever get a package that had some larger than others? Those tend to be overripe and will be 'woody'.
