That's why I don't eat hotdogs. I refuse to bite into something that may bite me back.

Most people don't really want to know where their food comes from or how it was prepared when it comes to animals. I was eating bacon and eggs one morning and I told my sister that bacon comes from pigs and steak and burgers from cows. My dad looked at me like was telling her someone she knew died or something.

We used to live in the country and a few houses down this couple had a field for thir cows. I would feed them apples all the time. I felt bad thinking about the process of slaughtering them for their meat, but that's just the way it is.

I remember an episode of newlyweds where Jessica Simpson thought that Buffola Wings were made of buffalo...

My understanding is that a furter is a type of sausage, so a frankfurter is a sausage made from ground-up Frank. Francis Bacon could be both a frankfurter and a hamburger!

Yep.

This has just destroyed everything I thought I knew about life. I thought Frankfurters were made up of ground up chunks of guys named Frank. I'll never happily eat one again.

A third of young people give ridiculous answers when asked insultingly simple questions.
Even kids who live in an inner city get taken on school trips to city farms

Yeah, but they're realisingly or nor not hurting themselves. If little Johnny Derp is asked by a school aide what a cow says, and he says 'woof' as sarcasm, it's his fault if they think he's special needs.

Unless the aide has aspergers, it should be blindingly obvious he was being sarcastic.

It's hard to believe that Asperger's syndrome is autisitic psychopathy.

Ignoring that naivety, a legal aide is required to report an answer without making personal judgement in most cases, if they answer right, good, if not, it's recorded.

This comes after they already released a report on US inner city kids. And trust me, they weren't any less ignorant about the food supply. I remember their big thing wasn't bacon but that they were completely unaware of where bread comes from or what it's made of... hence, there's now a new push to take portable fresh markets to the inner cities. (They turn old busses and other large vehicles into large refrigerated markets that they drive to areas without fresh produce.) As well as meeting a need, they are educating the people about where all this food comes from.

So sorry, Americans are still "stupid" too.


As for if we grew up on farms/had gardens: Both of my parents grew up in a small farming community up north, and we visited there every summer. They were the absolute best vacations. However, as a child they did shield me from where my meat came from (I knew, but I never really thought about it) and only found out just how horrible it all was (yes, I realize it's life, but it still makes me queasy) when I was about 12. They had a "Parent Career Day" at my school, where kid's parents would come in and talk about their jobs. One was a butcher, another an animal activist....both had visual aids. I stopped eating meat and all meat products for about a year after that.

That never even came close to happening in all my years of school.

Most hot dogs are made of like turkey, chicken and/or beef products. Which is kind of disgusting but I try not to think about it. What you really want to watch out for is the mechanically separated chicken.

As for the topic at hand, that doesn't surprise me in the least bit.

I don't see why people need to be taken to a farm to learn about animals.

This city/rural stuff doesn't quite make sense to me...then again there's no real segregation between rural and urban life in my country...

Hey, everyone does it to the US, so now it's the UK's turn.

This is how national polls are surveys are done.

Correct headline: "A third of young advlts in the UK were so baffled by the inanity of the questionnaire put before them that they decided to put all the wrong answers as a joke."

Honestly, I'm between 16 and 23, and if you'd asked me those things I'd have given those answers...

As a British person, a can confirm that this is true.

Statistically, you'd only be making the youth MORE stupid.

How so? They have no stake (pun intended) in getting it right, so why bother? If you're suggesting they care about how their nation is perceived internationally, you couldn't be more wrong.

Never lived on the rural side of Kentucky butI knew where bacon and where most food products logically come from.

This makes me think about meat and the various barbecue methods to cook.


Honestly It's just nice to have a study that isn't pointed at the US with some rediculous survey.

Couldn't be more missing the mark if you tried. I'd rather try and not look like I'm a moron to the world.

This country's gone to [censored] basically, the incompetance, laziness and self-entitled [censored] of everyone else in my class is just disgraceful; just wall-to-wall bone-idle scum and nihilism.

They're not identified, so how would they look like morons?



In http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existential_nihilismsense? I can't see anything wrong with that.