School installs an all-carrot vending machine

Associated Press

MASON, Ohio

Move over sports drinks and soda. A high school in southwestern Ohio has installed an all-carrot vending machine.

The Cincinnati Enquirer reports that Mason High School’s veggie vending machine is part of a national campaign to package and market baby carrots like junk food.

The school says students started buying 3-ounce bags of carrots hours after the vending machine was installed earlier this week.

A bag of carrots costs 50 cents, and the proceeds go to the school.

An alliance of farmers who launched the carrot campaign say they’re also testing a vending machine at a school in Syracuse, N.Y.

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