kiwi pom
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- canterbury NZ
I agree that farmers are fairly well regarded by the public, that's not the problem. The majority of the public know that a truck backs up to the supermarket and unloads food to put on the shelf for them to buy. That is the extent of their knowledge of the food chain. They have absolutely no idea how a farm fits into that picture. I lived in the city for a good many years and some of these people are just mind boggling with their lack of knowledge.
I think you might give them too much credit when you say they know a truck delivers food to the supermarket.
You're right many have very little knowledge of where their food comes from, I'm not sure they need to though.
I'm not convinced that its a good idea to educate them either. The rise in vegetarians and vegans might be because people realised that, that nice cute fluffy lamb is fattened up as quickly as possible so we can chop its head off and eat it.
A little bit of knowledge may be dangerous.