Regarding green eggs, one of my ducks had been laying green eggs occasionally. I told the 5 year old I took care of that Nettle made a green egg and asked if she wanted me to make it for her breakfast, and read her Green Eggs and Ham while she ate it. The smarty pants replied, "But Nanny, it's...
Your second grader has childhood on her side.
My nearly 40 year old friend saw my female ducks mating in their pond and thought they were giving each other innocent piggy back pool rides. I did explain, but she was adamant.
I agree with you, I visited about 10 webpages with similar percentages before grabbing one. I'm unwilling to spend more time than that researching the matter as, like you, I refuse to support factory farms and so the exact numbers don't really matter to me.
Please don't mistake me for someone...
I thought you might be unaware that the majority of food producing animals in the US are not treated kindly. I googled "what percentage of beef is factory farmed?" and this came up:
"99.9 percent of chickens for meat, 97 percent of laying hens, 99 percent of turkeys, 95 percent of pigs, and 78...