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Where do you think bacon comes from?
A third of 16-23 year olds don't know it comes from pigs.
A third don't know where milk comes from and...and...only two thirds knew that eggs came from chilckens.
Not so much a question as a 'sheesh' and a self administered slap to the forehead:
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How can this be?
Don't kids watch Delia?
A third don't know where milk comes from and...and...only two thirds knew that eggs came from chilckens.
Not so much a question as a 'sheesh' and a self administered slap to the forehead:
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How can this be?
Don't kids watch Delia?
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You're inferring from the article that the kids were from the inner cities - is this because of the following statement:
"Three in ten adults born in the nineties haven’t visited a farm in more than ten years, if at all, which is a real shame for our farmers.’"
If so, that's a bit of a leap - not all non-countryside dwellers come from the inner city.
Also, that statement (from the article) is a little strange. Do farmers REALLY want strangers tipping up on their farms for days out?
You're inferring from the article that the kids were from the inner cities - is this because of the following statement:
"Three in ten adults born in the nineties haven’t visited a farm in more than ten years, if at all, which is a real shame for our farmers.’"
If so, that's a bit of a leap - not all non-countryside dwellers come from the inner city.
Also, that statement (from the article) is a little strange. Do farmers REALLY want strangers tipping up on their farms for days out?
Fred....
50 per cent of adults didn't know that robins were permanently resident in the UK....I didn't know that!
50 per cent thought bees made honey from pollen....I thought that!
20 per cent didn't know acorns came from oaks...I knew this :-)
40 per cent didn't know deciduous trees lost their leaves in Autumn....I knew this :-)
and, of 18-24 year-olds, a quarter didn't know that tadpoles became frogs...I knew this too :-)
Sp...c'mon, fess up!!
50 per cent of adults didn't know that robins were permanently resident in the UK....I didn't know that!
50 per cent thought bees made honey from pollen....I thought that!
20 per cent didn't know acorns came from oaks...I knew this :-)
40 per cent didn't know deciduous trees lost their leaves in Autumn....I knew this :-)
and, of 18-24 year-olds, a quarter didn't know that tadpoles became frogs...I knew this too :-)
Sp...c'mon, fess up!!
ummm - I genuinely didn't know that robins were permanently resident in the UK...however rowanwitch has queried that.
And I didn't know the collective name for trees that lose their leaves in Autumn was 'deciduous'.
And to be honest, whilst I didn't think that bees make honey from pollen, I couldn't tell you HOW they make it.
And I didn't know the collective name for trees that lose their leaves in Autumn was 'deciduous'.
And to be honest, whilst I didn't think that bees make honey from pollen, I couldn't tell you HOW they make it.
Hooray, I knew bees made honey from the nectar they sip from the flowers (I think) the pollen is collected on their little furry bodies and taken to the next flower to fertilise the seeds, naughty little bees! They always go to the same type of flower. I didn't know trees that lost their leaves were called deciduous. I have always referred to the ones keeping their leaves as 'evergreen' and ignored the others. I knew all the others (honest, yer 'onner).
Yes, rowan, some robins we see in Winter are migrants from Scandinavia, here to avoid Scandinavian weather. But I don't think LEAF's survey permitted of an answer "some don't" , which meant "some we see are Winter visitors" or, as is the case, that some of our female robins cross the Channel !
Ed, LEAF encourages organised farm visits, but you're right to suggest that 'Townies' can be a nuisance to farmers. Actually, the worst 'offenders' are people who come to live in the country. We had one man who complained that we should clear cow muck from a cattle path, because his children were getting it on their shoes when the walked through to play in the cow pasture which it led to. And the number who think a wood, a mile from the road,is a public park, together evidently with the fields adjoining,apparently on the grounds that it has a pretty river in it and some others like them walk in it, is quite large. I've more than once had it asserted to me, when I've stopped a dog walker or picknicker, that "It's public". Pointing to the fields of arable they've crossed to reach it doesn't dissuade them from this opinion.
Ed, LEAF encourages organised farm visits, but you're right to suggest that 'Townies' can be a nuisance to farmers. Actually, the worst 'offenders' are people who come to live in the country. We had one man who complained that we should clear cow muck from a cattle path, because his children were getting it on their shoes when the walked through to play in the cow pasture which it led to. And the number who think a wood, a mile from the road,is a public park, together evidently with the fields adjoining,apparently on the grounds that it has a pretty river in it and some others like them walk in it, is quite large. I've more than once had it asserted to me, when I've stopped a dog walker or picknicker, that "It's public". Pointing to the fields of arable they've crossed to reach it doesn't dissuade them from this opinion.
sp1814
/// You're inferring from the article that the kids were from the inner cities ///
No sorry I was not inferring anything from the article, I was simply searching for more information than that which was included in your link and came across this BBC link.
The only problem was that it was 10 years old, but it addressed similar concerns.
/// Lots of kids from inner city areas don't know that eggs come from chickens, a shocking survey's shown. ///
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/// You're inferring from the article that the kids were from the inner cities ///
No sorry I was not inferring anything from the article, I was simply searching for more information than that which was included in your link and came across this BBC link.
The only problem was that it was 10 years old, but it addressed similar concerns.
/// Lots of kids from inner city areas don't know that eggs come from chickens, a shocking survey's shown. ///
http://
When I went to school everyone (boys and girls) had to take 'Home Economics' (a very early example of PC rebranding - previously, it was called 'Cookery class').
I wonder whether a) this is still the case and b) if it isn't, this could be one of the reasons behind this apparently level of ignorance?
I wonder whether a) this is still the case and b) if it isn't, this could be one of the reasons behind this apparently level of ignorance?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honey
Here is a link to how bees make honey. It doesnt mention that bee digestive enzymes convert some sugars to others or that bees living near woodland use the sugary secretions of aphids as well as sugary secretions direct from trees.
Here is a link to how bees make honey. It doesnt mention that bee digestive enzymes convert some sugars to others or that bees living near woodland use the sugary secretions of aphids as well as sugary secretions direct from trees.
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