Today's back-to-nature revival is a response to corporations and the financial crisis: the global machine of mass "productivity" is broken, so we should retreat to our gardens and tend our organic carrots.
Our overriding priority is to provide our customers with high quality produce, and our organic carrots need to be as fresh as possible.
Consequently, we are constantly searching for that one magic thing that will deliver us into Permanent Platinum status -- the right home, relationship, job, haircut, whatever our personal carrot may be.
Fukuyama prefers carrots -- "our ability to set an example, to train and educate, to support with advice and often money" -- but the job plainly demands sticks as well if we hope to see results in our own lifetime.
When we eat too many carotenes (no matter our age) like carrots, squash and sweet potatoes over a prolonged period, the excess accumulates on the outermost layer of the skin and causes more of a "discoloration" than a pretty tan.
While some have argued we're skipping our peas and carrots because the produce is too pricey, a new paper from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Economic Research Service indicates that cost isn't the main factor in our tendency not to eat enough fruits and veggies.
