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Mar 02, 2007, 07:00 AM
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Thousands of British children think cows lay eggs, a survey has suggested. Townies fared worst in the research designed to find out if kids know where their food comes from. Dairy Farmers of Britain asked more than 1,000 children aged eight to 15 where they believed food like cheese, yoghurt and beef burgers originated.
Although knowledge improved with age, more than one in 10 (11%) of eight-year-olds did not know that pork chops come from pigs. City children were almost three times as likely not know that beef burgers come from cows as their rural counterparts - 8% against 3%. One in 10 townie children did not know where yoghurt comes from, compared to 6% of those from the countryside. Worst of all, 2% of city kids in the sample survey thought that eggs come from cows, and that bacon is from cows or sheep. Welsh children proved to be the least clued-up when it comes to cheese - with 11% unaware that it came from cows or sheep, compared to just 3% in the East Midlands. But there was one piece of reassuring news for dairy farmers - all of the children knew that cows produce milk. Dairy Farmers' Phil Gibson said: "With the Government and health organisations encouraging healthy eating in schools, it is important that children are taught about the way food is produced as well as what it contains."
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Mar 02, 2007, 12:52 PM
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i wonder how many of the kids said burger king or macdonalds when asked where beef burgers came from
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Mar 02, 2007, 03:02 PM
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katheryn,
LOL. I can just imagine what American children think. I've had a little more success recently, getting my daughter who is 9 to eat better by stressing to her about the difference between basic foods and processed foods. Still I am not sure if she could answer all of these questions correctly. I guess I can't assume she knows where different meats etc come from unless I tell her. Meta
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Mar 02, 2007, 03:54 PM
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you mean that they're not made of 'ham'?
 
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Mar 02, 2007, 03:55 PM
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Mar 02, 2007, 05:03 PM
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so what your saying is cow's dont lay eggs ??? are you sure.......... lol
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Mar 02, 2007, 05:16 PM
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Cows have ovaries. Ovaries produce eggs.
So in a sense, they are correct on that one...
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Mar 15, 2007, 04:49 PM
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so, would that be prairie caviar then? the oyster comes from somewhere else... ooo |
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