Should Kharagon Kill the Carrots?

D&D is weird. Apparently, a wizard enchanted some carrots to enhance their flavor, but the enchantment had a side effect of making the carrots sentient. Seemingly, these carrots distributed themselves to various restaurants and got themselves eaten. Many of the people who ate the carrots subsequently transformed into rabbits, which was a major inconvenience. We have found a cure for the carrot-eaters' rabbitiness, so they'll all soon go back to normal, but the question remains of what to do with the remaining carrots. The wizard who made them strongly suggested burning them so they couldn't cause any more problems, and I initially agreed, but given more time to reflect, I'm no longer certain that my character, Kharagon, should help destroy the remaining sentient carrots.

The carrots that got themselves eaten are, arguably, worthy of punishment. They deliberately put themselves in a position where they knew it was likely that they would be eaten, and the result of being eaten was that those who had eaten them were magically transformed. This is similar to drugging a person, for which the eaten carrots should be punished, but they are no longer around. Besides, I'm not sure we can assume evil intent on the carrots' part. They knew they were likely to be eaten, but I don't know if they knew that they would transform those who ate them. Also, some responsibility falls on the restaurants for serving carrots that clearly had not been sufficiently tested, but I imagine that most of those restaurants were unaware that the carrots were magical. The carrots seemed to intend to be eaten, and I believe that it's partly their fault that they succeeded.

Yet, the eaten carrots are not the ones currently slated to be burned. It is the uneaten carrots that remain to be punished. Attempted drugging is certainly worthy of punishment (if we assume malicious intent), but how much punishment would be just? What punishment, if any, should the uneaten carrots face? Death by fire is too extreme a punishment for all but the worst crimes. I think that it's morally wrong to burn to death carrots who may not have intended to transform anyone into rabbits and, in fact, did not. And now that we know that the transformations are caused by eating those carrots, the transformations can be prevented simply by refraining from eating those carrots. All we have to do is spread the news about the carrots, and the transformations will probably stop. We don't really need to destroy the carrots until and unless they prove harmful even to those who know better than to eat them.
 
Of course, I'm probably overthinking this. There are weird, magic carrots transforming people into rabbits. We are obviously supposed to destroy them. But I like thinking through these odd moral situations and considering what should be done, even if it isn't what the characters will actually do. I suppose, then, that the best thing to do (besides not eating carrots) would be to put the carrots on trial, determine if they had malicious intent, potentially punish them (though probably not fatally), and find a place where the carrots can live in peace and harmony with their neighbors. If the carrots prove incapable of living in harmony with others, then more drastic measures may be considered, but burning the carrots alive shouldn't be our first choice. So, no, Kharagon should not kill the carrots, at least not in this way or at this time. There may yet be a peaceful solution to the problem with the carrots.