Why the fuck would you make vegetables sweet? I've already complained about how severe the obesity problem in my city is, but this one really takes the cake, if you'll pardon the pun. Since my previously favorite grocery store cut out its produce section to make room for more snacks, I've had to go to trader joes. They had organic whole carrots for less than the price of the ordinary carrots at most stores here, so I bought a bag. I noticed that they tasted significantly less sweet and much better than the carrots I'm used to.  Today I saw a few bags of the carrots I used to buy (they had all expired yesterday). Looking a couple different brands, I noticed they all had WAY more sugar than the stuff I have now, and some of them actually had added sugar (somehow). At most stores vegetable choices are literally down to carrots lettuce, and broccoli, with a choice of near expiration or frozen. And now I discover that the carrots I used to love because I could get them actually fresh were loaded with sugar. I am glad I can get to trader joe's, as otherwise I would be stuck with about to expire lettuce or frozen broccoli. I just can't believe that a) retailers were apparently willing to buy un-healthy vegetables for the purpose of appealing to a demographic that typically just skips that section, and b) farmers were willing to actually grow carrots with extra sugar in them (somehow) and then their sellers were willing to add in even more sugar to try to appeal to that same demographic. And despite that, they still aren't selling, as evidenced by the expired bags still on the shelf. Maybe they were thinking that obese customers would buy a second bag before giving up on this weight loss attempt if they made the carrots stupidly sweet?