Where your food comes from (the supermarket?)
Unreal but believable. From
BBC News:
Public 'unaware' of food origins
Many British people are unaware that the ingredients for produce such as bacon, porridge, bread and beer come from farms, a survey suggests.
The Linking Environment And Farming organisation found that 22% of 1,073 adults questioned did not know bacon and sausages originate from farms.
Some 47% of people did not know farms produced porridge's main ingredient.
The National Farmers Union (NFU) is organising Open Farms Sunday on 10 June to promote awareness of British farms.
The day will see farms around the country opening to the public for events such as nature trails, talks, tastings and demonstrations.
People who work in the food and farming industry say the survey confirms what, anecdotally, they have been hearing for years - that people are becoming disconnected from the food they eat and where it comes from.
A few more numbers:
The survey also found four in 10 people did not know yoghurt is made using farm produce, nearly half were unaware the raw ingredients for beer start off in farmers' fields and 23% did not know bread's main ingredients came from the farm.
For dinner tonight, we had some pork chops raised by the sister of a neighbor of ours. Local organic salad greens and for desert, we had the first strawberries of the season from a farm about 10 miles away from us and fresh homemade whipped cream -- the cream came from a local dairy.
The difference in taste is staggering and the cost is a lot less than you would expect. We have to have freezer space for a hundred pounds of meat for our pig but we paid less than $3/pound for some amazing food. The berries are local and we are selling quart containers of them at our store for under $4.00 -- picked that morning.
The cream for the whipped cream sells at our store for under $3/pint and this makes about two pints of some of the most delicious whipped cream you ever tasted. Ever read the label on even some of the organic whipping creams and you see things like Carrageen (a gelatinous seaweed extract) -- that company took out the butterfat from their cream and need to add this so it can whip. Problem is that butterfat tastes really good and you are robbing this whipping cream of flavor.
Eating organic is good but eating local is even better -- for the farmers, for the overall economy and for your own health and taste buds...
Posted by DaveH at June 8, 2007 10:18 PM