This is a nightmare. It further increases the distance and decoupling between product and responsibility for it’s quality and origin.
With this system you can’t even be responsible for chosing properly. It’s chosen for you.
..nightmare.
This weekend I went out picking wild fruit with company. It happened to be on a route where locals and tourists freqently pass on foot.
About 30% of the passers-by asked what we were doing. None could identify the fruit (blueberries). Most asked if it was poisonous. Some offered wild suggestions (including plums! plums growing on the ground!) Confused nationalities included: British, French, American, Australian, German and a few others.
I know a girl who works in afterschool care, who told me the children don’t know where common vegetables come from, and often the identities of each. She now teaches them this stuff voluntarily out of sheer horror.
So we’re truly beginning to lose the plot with respect to food. The video above is part of the ‘why’.
all children born to my friends/family now receive baskets of knitted toy vegetables (to scale) instead of hats, blankets, teddy bears, etc, for this very reason. i don’t ever want to hear a child i know say, “what’s a tomato?”
on a related note, i am acquainted with a 10-year old who learned, while eating a hamburger, that steak comes from cows and proclaimed with relief, “i am glad i don’t eat steak!” i expected her parents to die of shame at that very moment. they didn’t… nor did anyone bother to enlighten her.
Defense.gov News Photo 110426-A-7597S-183: U.S. Special Operations service members with Special Operations Task Force South board two UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters following a clearing operation in Panjwa'i district in Kandahar province, Afghanistan, on April 25, 2011. Source: Wikimedia.
This is a nightmare. It further increases the distance and decoupling between product and responsibility for it’s quality and origin.
With this system you can’t even be responsible for chosing properly. It’s chosen for you.
..nightmare.
This weekend I went out picking wild fruit with company. It happened to be on a route where locals and tourists freqently pass on foot.
About 30% of the passers-by asked what we were doing. None could identify the fruit (blueberries). Most asked if it was poisonous. Some offered wild suggestions (including plums! plums growing on the ground!) Confused nationalities included: British, French, American, Australian, German and a few others.
I know a girl who works in afterschool care, who told me the children don’t know where common vegetables come from, and often the identities of each. She now teaches them this stuff voluntarily out of sheer horror.
So we’re truly beginning to lose the plot with respect to food. The video above is part of the ‘why’.
all children born to my friends/family now receive baskets of knitted toy vegetables (to scale) instead of hats, blankets, teddy bears, etc, for this very reason. i don’t ever want to hear a child i know say, “what’s a tomato?”
on a related note, i am acquainted with a 10-year old who learned, while eating a hamburger, that steak comes from cows and proclaimed with relief, “i am glad i don’t eat steak!” i expected her parents to die of shame at that very moment. they didn’t… nor did anyone bother to enlighten her.