The results of a survey conducted by OnePoll and Youngpoll has discovered 26% of teenagers believe bacon rashers come from sheep! Even more incredibly, 29% believe oats grow in trees and 17% think bread contains eggs! These findings highlight a dire need to educate young people about all things relating to food; not just food hygiene, but the very basic facts about the food they eat on a daily basis!

In this, the buildup to the Farmhouse Breakfast Week awareness campaign, the National Farmers Union is particularly bemused by the whole thing. NFU president Peter Kendall said of the matter that “Everyone should know where primary foods like cereals are grown and the role they play as part of a healthy balanced diet. “It is critical that children and adults alike understand more about their food, and the role British farmers play in producing it.”

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Having said all of the above, we must not rule out that many of the 3000 young people involved in the survey may well have been joking… It’s a possibility. I, for one, certainly hope they were!