(Thanks, J. :)

J, now you know what it's RUMOR Mill News. :) And you should not expect that everything we post is being held out as 'the gospel truth'. We do sometimes post Reader e-mails as a courtesy, even those we might disagree with. Reader discretion is always advised.

However, if you'll read the post titled "I think Cebi was probably wrong about that.", you'll find I did research, and located the Carrot Museum site myself. :)

Reader J. writes:

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Re: Reader: 'Unfortunately, most Americans are....

Unfortunately the Rumor Mill does not do its research properly! You should provide this link to the authentic History of Carrots - Link http://www.carrotmuseum.co.uk/history.html

The Dutch did not genetically modify carrots to produce an orange version. They may have selectively bred deep yellow varieties. They did not "invent" orange carrots.

In the late 1500s, agricultural scientists in the Netherlands bred selected deep yellow carrots together to make stable, large, straight, sweet, orange carrots like the ones we eat today, possibly because they thought the fad for sweet oranges would make people like other orange foods. But people still mostly fed carrots to horses and donkeys and pigs, and didn’t eat them themselves.

The link you provide to Greenprophet is also erroneous - Carrot did not originate in Egypt. It was probably in the Hindu Kush Region, or Persia.

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