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why is it important to see where the food comes from? if that's the case why not have mocked up clothing factories / sweat shops so we can see where our clothes come from.
city farms don't show people where their food comes from. they are very different from actual working farms. we have the internet and television plus it's never that far to travel to a working farm even from central london.
the justification that city farms somehow give an insight into modern food production is fundamentally flawed. most of the time it's just a little bit of a hobby job for the people that run them and another excuse to keep domesticated animals merely for the titillation of humans.
For me food is much more important than clothing.
While city farms don't bear any relationship to modern farms, I think really we are talking about educating kids exactly where milk comes from & where chickens come from. Some primary school kids have no idea.
A bit depressing to experience everything on TV or the internet wouldn't you say ?US housing: it's not a bubble - Moneyweek Dec 12, 20050 -
Are their really kids that do not know that meat comes from animals, or is this just an urban myth?
ask some teachers about infants in their school. Some can't use a knife and fork or dress themselves (kids not teachers
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Supposedly 25% of under 16's think that bacon come from a sheep.
And oats grow on trees.
mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2010/01/21/fancy-a-bitof-baa-con-115875-21983559US housing: it's not a bubble - Moneyweek Dec 12, 20050 -
I just want to say hello to kenyboy!:)
Welcome back mate! Good to see you.
I'm sure I'm not the only one who has missed your insight, as well as good humour.
:jIt's getting harder & harder to keep the government in the manner to which they have become accustomed.0 -
Kennyboy66 wrote: »ask some teachers about infants in their school. Some can't use a knife and fork or dress themselves (kids not teachers)
Supposedly 25% of under 16's think that bacon come from a sheep.
And oats grow on trees.
mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2010/01/21/fancy-a-bitof-baa-con-115875-21983559
I work in a college. Many teachers struggle with dressing themselves...It's getting harder & harder to keep the government in the manner to which they have become accustomed.0 -
Kennyboy66 wrote: »ask some teachers about infants in their school. Some can't use a knife and fork or dress themselves (kids not teachers)
Supposedly 25% of under 16's think that bacon come from a sheep.
And oats grow on trees.
mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2010/01/21/fancy-a-bitof-baa-con-115875-21983559
That cannot be true.0 -
Kennyboy66 wrote: »For me food is much more important than clothing.
Historically there was a link.....its interesting to me (I wrote an undergrad paper on it) the nature of modern agriculture being so disparate. ''Green'' methods are often simply restoring broen links in chains, from when farming moved from a mixed method and consumption was dependant on production within that method. It will never be the same, fwiw, but nice to tidy up loose ends where possible and mend broken chains. It would be better for sheep farmers, certainly!
edit: also markets have changed unrecognisably, and fwiw, some of the links are not obvious, nor is there a reason they should be to all.0 -
That cannot be true.
But it was in a survey - it must be true!
It reminds me of the Simpsons
Homer: Are you saying you're never going to eat any animal again? What about bacon?
Lisa: No.
Homer: Ham?
Lisa: No!
Homer: Pork chops?
Lisa: Dad, those all come from the same animal!
Homer: Heh heh heh... ooh... yeah... right, Lisa. A wonderful... magical animal.US housing: it's not a bubble - Moneyweek Dec 12, 20050 -
I do wonder what animal them little circular bacon rashers that they do in McDs come from.0
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That cannot be true.Originally Posted by Kennyboy66
ask some teachers about infants in their school. Some can't use a knife and fork or dress themselves (kids not teachers)
Supposedly 25% of under 16's think that bacon come from a sheep.
And oats grow on trees.
mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2010/01/21/fancy-a-bitof-baa-con-115875-21983559
I regularly see Turkey bacon, which made me think it might be worth a google
Would you believe it.....
http://homemadebacon.wordpress.com/2010/04/12/bacon-making-lamb-bacon/:wall:
What we've got here is....... failure to communicate.
Some men you just can't reach.
:wall:0
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