Its not unusual for children to not recognise where their food comes from, many adults are also unaware of how their food is produced.
Children are becoming increasingly ignorant about where our basic foods come from, particularly meat and other animal produce.

It is essential that as a solution to overcome the problems associated with intensive agricultural industries, the younger generation must be taught about the basics of animal and arable agriculture.

Children should participate in school trips which takes them to farms open to the public, where they can see how farming ideally should be done in order to promote better animal welfare and sustainability for the up coming future.

They should also be taught in the classroom about the differences between intensive agricultural systems and extensive/organic ones, they must learn how these systems impact differently in aspects such as public health (as intensive produce often contains antibiotics which leads to antibiotic resistance, as well as containing artificial hormones and traces of ecoil, etc.) environmental sustainability and animal welfare.

Furthermore, they should realise that eggs we commonly eat come from chickens, learn about which meats come off which animals, and that cheese, milk and butter are from cows which have to be impregnated first.

Also, children should grow their own food in school and learn about good animal husbandry by ideally having small livestock which they can enjoy looking after and thus learn effectively and spend time learning from outside the classroom walls.

It's significant that our future generations must be connected with their food, with nature and the outdoors, in order to develop and encourage future ethical and sustainable farmers and ethical and informed consumers.

Further, children have spent so much time learning advanced things but the basics are just as equally important. Basics mustn't be dismissed. Children also shouldn't be left in the dark upon the sad and worrying realities of today's modern day farming practices, which is something they will have to face in their lives.

If you agree then please sign the petition. Do it for our future, their future, the environment and animal welfare.