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On top of carrots for the pilots, on December 22, 1940, the British Ministry of Agriculture released a statement urging the populace to eat carrots. โIf we included a sufficient quantity of carrots in our diet,โ the statement read, โwe should overcome the fairly prevalent malady of blackout blindness.โ
But the government had another motivation in pushing carrots: Great Britain faced food shortages due to wartime rationing, and carrots were plentiful and cheap. This led government agencies to tout them as having eye-strengthening powers as part of widespread campaigns aimed at getting the British public to eat carrots
white lies, orange lunches.