Over 40% of Children Think Bacon Comes from Plants and French Fries Are Some Kind of Meat, According to a New Study
By Mike Pomranz | FoodAndWine.Com Troy Warren for CNT #Foodie That childhood naivety could be an opportunity to fight climate change, the paper suggests. Kids can be notoriously picky eaters, but a new study suggests that their culinary knowledge may not be refined enough to match their discerning palates. Over two-thirds of the youngsters involved in the research believed that bacon didn't come from an animal, but instead came from some sort of mythical bacon plant. A study recently published in the Journal of Environmental Psychology asked 176 American children from the ages of four to seven years old to, among other things, sort 13 foods…
