40% of American kids think hot dogs/ bacon are plants

[ALGAYDO 35,125]

46 minutes ago, Helxig said:

Does the US just have literally no food/nutrition education? Even back in my small town in New Zealand in the 90's my tiny primary school of like 90 students had a curriculum that taught us about fruits, vegetables, meats, nutrition, being active and healthy, eating 5+ fruit and veg a day, the food pyramid of healthy foods/all the time foods vs unhealthy foods/sometimes foods, that a meal should be meat and 3 veges (some of which is a bit outdated now but it was still a big part of our education). We even had a small cooking unit where we made simple meals on gas cookers. Then we had to do take cooking classes at intermediate at 11/12 years old (along with things like sewing, electronics, woodworking, a little bit of Maori, French and Japanese)

Now I need to move to NZ before starting a family so my kids can get an actual education 

[sarahb 17,188]

23 minutes ago, WheresMy911Alice said:

You knew at 4+ that hot dogs and bacon were from a pig right? 

My dad told me hot dogs were made from dogs 

Pretty sure I ate them anyway and just hoped he was joking though 

When I got a little older I was told they were made from 'lips and assholes' which probably isn't inaccurate tbh 

[Bling 31,680]

1 hour ago, sarahb said:

My dad told me hot dogs were made from dogs 

Pretty sure I ate them anyway and just hoped he was joking though 

When I got a little older I was told they were made from 'lips and assholes' which probably isn't inaccurate tbh 

WHAT talk about Traumatica 

[sarahb 17,188]

2 minutes ago, WheresMy911Alice said:

WHAT talk about Traumatica 

He also told my brother that spring rolls were made from toilet paper rolls except he believed him 

[Guest]

this kinda info means nothing without comparative studies to see if these kids are actually more ******** than previous oenes

[FfFfFfFF 58,120]

15 hours ago, Mindblown said:

Okay but that source?

I checked and it turned out IFLScience is generally legit! https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/ifl-science/ It ranks high in factual reporting, in the same category as media sources such as The Guardian and The New York Times (all of them also being left-biased too which isn't surprising )

[Eido 3,681]

I doesn't really surprise me tho

[NFRatwell 23,290]

These are kids that still believe a big fat man comes every year from the north to give them toys made by elves

[Mikolaj 11,640]

Maybe you all shouldn't get triggered by the state of knowledge of little kids? How much did you know about the world at 4 years old?

The society isn't gonna forget where the bacon comes from so don't act like it

[HuffsAhoy 7,433]

8 hours ago, Helxig said:

We even had a small cooking unit where we made simple meals on gas cookers. Then we had to do take cooking classes at intermediate at 11/12 years old (along with things like sewing, electronics, woodworking, a little bit of Maori, French and Japanese)

When I was in middle school (grade 6-8), we had a life skills class that taught basics such as cooking, sewing, how to finance money, etc. This was an elective course and victim of cuts to focus more on testing and data. 

1 hour ago, NFRatwell said:

These are kids that still believe a big fat man comes every year from the north to give them toys made by elves

And what's wrong with a kid having a little imagination? We already live in a society where they're forced to grow up too fast. Believing in Santa Claus for a while ain't hurting no one. 

[Freud 5,988]

That reminds me of a funny story when I was a kid. As i was eating liver sausage bread (it's a german thing), I asked my mother that there is not actually liver in it, is it? To which she replied, no it isn't. Flash forward, to when I was able to read and looked up the ingredients, i spitt out the bread I was eating.  I never felt more betrayed in my whole life...

 

[vpez 1,250]

I mean 176 participants aren't really representative, but it's shocking non the less.

Our western society managed to fully ignore the consequences of our actions, and food is only one example.
Everyone should know, what really happened to the animal when you bite in a hot dog etc. The cruelty behind that is only one aspect, the consequences on our health, environment and in the end again on our society isn't much better at all.

[Fame IV 4,426]

Nowadays they ONLY care about TikTok

[TheDemonIClingTo 1,018]

2 minutes ago, Fame IV said:

Nowadays they ONLY care about TikTok

How did it come to this... Jesus 

[NFRatwell 23,290]

1 hour ago, HuffsAhoy said:

And what's wrong with a kid having a little imagination? We already live in a society where they're forced to grow up too fast. Believing in Santa Claus for a while ain't hurting no one. 

I didn’t mean it like that. I mean these people are judging America as a whole on a bunch of kids who still believe in Santa clause and the tooth fairy. There’s nothing wrong with that. No one should be expecting them to know how to eat the right foods or **** like that.