Children and where food comes from

[Tanis8472]

Or beef in a (tesco) beefburger.

Mind you, their meatballs are the dog's bollocks

 

[Cubist]

It is a simple fact of life that the vast majority of consumers don't spend a second of their lives thinking about where food comes from. Meat is simply a product you find wrapped and sanitised on the supermarket shelf. Processed meat products are just that, and bear no resemblance to the animal they originate from. I am constantly disheartened and dismayed by the number of people who criticise or condemn as cruelty the consumption of wild game, yet perfectly happily eat factory farmed poultry, or intensively reared pork, beef and lamb.

 

[Markymark]

It is a simple fact of life that the vast majority of consumers don't spend a second of their lives thinking about where food anything comes from.

FTFY

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

My sister once bought a house with a small garden and was astonished when a crop of potatoes appeared. She picked them and gave them away to friends and family because she couldn't bear the thought of eating something that came out of the ground. "What if a cat's done it's business on them?" was her thinking.

20 years on and she's got a flourishing allotment where she spends a lot of time growing all sorts. I'd like to think it was partly because of the ribbing we gave her.

 

[raleighnut]

View: https://youtu.be/tVo_wkxH9dU

 

[LonesomeWanderer]

Odd, I thought pupils went to primary school to learn stuff, I didn't realize they were supposed to know everything already....

 

[I like Skol]

[QUOTE 4840380, member: 45"]When one of our boys was a toddler he thought eggs came out of the chicken with a red lion picture on them.[/QUOTE]
You mean they don't?

I blame the parents......

 

[Cubist]

[QUOTE 4840380, member: 45"]When one of our boys was a toddler he thought eggs came out of the chicken with a red lion picture on them.[/QUOTE]
Not all of them. It's pretty difficult to change the toner cartridge when it runs out, and many don't bother.

 

[Chromatic]

Odd, I thought pupils went to primary school to learn stuff, I didn't realize they were supposed to know everything already....

Things like this aren't incumbent on the parents then?

 

[FishFright]

Things like this aren't incumbent on the parents then?

I find it best that primary school children are educated to at least a tertiary level before they start going to school to avoid attention on slow news days

 

[LonesomeWanderer]

Things like this aren't incumbent on the parents then?

The article mentions five to sixteen year olds. I wouldn't expect a 5 year old to know where all their food is coming from.

 

[Arjimlad]

As a shooter, my kids know where their meat comes from.

After taking my son out at 5 after a bunny, bringing one home, skinning it & cooking it, he started to look around for stuff for me to "turn into meat".

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

It was reported that a lot of adults in the US thought London was a country

Many adults in England think that England and the U.K. are synonyms

 

[Kestevan]

Some adults in Scotland think we give a monkeys for their opinions......

 

[fossyant]

My kids are well aware, and we do tell them Maccys/KFC is crap, so don't eat it too often. My daughter does actually ask which part of an animal the meat is from. It's their choice.