I'll be honest, I've forgotten the stats I read, but I remember they were scary. There's a growing distaste with eating animals (I choose not to by being veggie) but the food industry "helps" others by disguising food. Chicken as "nuggets" and fish as "fingers". That kind of thing. We're becoming conditioned to have that disconnect between our food and what our food actually is.
To be fair, we all take things for granted. I think most of us know what peanuts are but how many of us would recognise the plant they come from.
I watched a thing and almost 40% of 12 year olds in a class didn't know where milk came from. Scary shit.
I went veg for 4 weeks at the beginning of last year before I had a whole pig roasted on a spit. I bought every fruit and vegetable I had never had before and ate them (usually cut fine and pan fried or baked in a pie). Even now I make a mean veg BBQ but it usually has a meat side.
Yeah, I'd seen the same thing. The survey I saw had a follow-up article written by the examiners. If people didn't know where milk (and cheese, I think) was from, they were expecting people to say they were made in factories. But the most common response was that people didn't know and didn't care.
I can't quote the figures about the meat survey because I've genuinely forgotten them but it was around the same age group as above and something like a half of them couldn't match up a picture of meat with the animal it came from. It wasn't difficult stuff, either. I think it was chicken, bacon, and steak. How can people think bacon is from a chicken?
Is it normal that when I see an animal I want to eat it?
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I'll be honest, I've forgotten the stats I read, but I remember they were scary. There's a growing distaste with eating animals (I choose not to by being veggie) but the food industry "helps" others by disguising food. Chicken as "nuggets" and fish as "fingers". That kind of thing. We're becoming conditioned to have that disconnect between our food and what our food actually is.
To be fair, we all take things for granted. I think most of us know what peanuts are but how many of us would recognise the plant they come from.
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I watched a thing and almost 40% of 12 year olds in a class didn't know where milk came from. Scary shit.
I went veg for 4 weeks at the beginning of last year before I had a whole pig roasted on a spit. I bought every fruit and vegetable I had never had before and ate them (usually cut fine and pan fried or baked in a pie). Even now I make a mean veg BBQ but it usually has a meat side.
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Yeah, I'd seen the same thing. The survey I saw had a follow-up article written by the examiners. If people didn't know where milk (and cheese, I think) was from, they were expecting people to say they were made in factories. But the most common response was that people didn't know and didn't care.
I can't quote the figures about the meat survey because I've genuinely forgotten them but it was around the same age group as above and something like a half of them couldn't match up a picture of meat with the animal it came from. It wasn't difficult stuff, either. I think it was chicken, bacon, and steak. How can people think bacon is from a chicken?