Do you ever encounter people that don't know where eggs come from?

[My Little Sister's Farm]

my mom made a 60+ year old woman throw up in the dairy section about 10 years ago when she told her milk comes from cows. Oops!

Didn't want to tell her where her bacon was from, baby steps you know.

 

[Laurieks]

Forgive me if I already posted this in a similar thread

A story from our local Ag Day, when something like 3,000-5,000 kids are bussed in from miles away to learn about where their food and other products come from... and all of us who are willing volunteer to be there to teach them...
I was milking my goat and explaining the process to the kids, and the teacher said to one of the kids 'Careful Honey, he might kick you'. HE ?!?
ARGHH, this is from the mouth of the TEACHER who is teaching these kids about their food.
I explained, as patiently as I could:
1) Goats don't kick out. They may use a hoof to try to scrape my hand off their udder (like my little &*%*, I mean angel, yearling this year keeps trying).
2) Male goats don't give milk.

*sigh* These stories are cute & terrifying. I suppose all those folks vote too. *shudder*

Never give up educating, some day we may get to them all.

 

[cassie]

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Actually sometimes they do. Particularly bucks from very high milk producing lines. I used to see a Togg buck at shows whose udder was larger than his scrotum and you would see his owner milking him out before he went into the show ring. They had to milk him out every couple of days or so as a matter of routine. I once had an Alpine buck that gave milk. I only had to milk him out once a week or so though. One day I took a sample of his milk and sent it to the lab. It came back with 3.2% butterfat and a CMT negative. I even got brave and tasted some of it. It had a very good flavor, much to my surprise. Not bucky at all.

But you are right. Males generally don't give milk. At fairs when I was milking my goats I used to point out to the spectators that all mammals, including people, produce milk, and the purpose of the milk is to feed their young. I would tell them that dairy animals have been bred to produce a lot more than their babies could ever need. And then, in response to a question I would get several times every day I would tell them that no, goats do NOT eat tin cans. Some of them didn't believe me though.

 

[balticbabe]

It’s so sad that people are so disconnected from life that they think food just appears by magic. How can so many people think that

Eggs and milk come from cartons

Babies come from fertility doctors

Spam is not pig parts in a can

 

[KnitswithChickens]

I teach 3 year olds at pre-school. All the kids know that eggs come from a chicken and not the grocery store and that roosters don't lay eggs! You have to keep it simple for threes ,but I'm darned if these city kids will leave my class thinking that eggs just magically appear in the store.

 

[Happy Chooks]

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Either way, they still have to be killed. By someone. So sad that people are so disconnected from their food source that they can't even fathom their meat coming from an animal.

I'd tell them to go visit where their meat comes from. I'm sure they'd be shocked to see the conditions meat animals are kept in.

 

[OutInTheStiks]

A few years ago we took a group of students on a field trip to a meat processor in our county. We walked through the whole process from the cow walking in the plant to packaged ground beef going out the door. It was one of the best field trips I have been on. Even though I and the students knew where burgers came from, it was still very interesting to see the whole process.

 

[captainmoose]

My SIL was visiting and we ask if she wanted some fresh eggs, we gave her a dozen and she looked at them and said she never had brown eggs before. Her husband said brown eggs are good for you they are all egg white they dont have a yolk. Another relative said you have to have a rooster to make the yolk.

 

[PortageGirl]

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LOL, oh my goodness, that's funnier than most!! I just gave a dozen eggs to one of my father's nurses, I hope she eats them and doesn't throw them out

She's a local girl, so I'm going to ask her and hope she tells me the truth. If she likes them I'll give her more cause she's so kind to my da. (he'll be 91 in 2 months)

 

[Lil Chickie Mama]

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Actually sometimes they do. Particularly bucks from very high milk producing lines. I used to see a Togg buck at shows whose udder was larger than his scrotum and you would see his owner milking him out before he went into the show ring. They had to milk him out every couple of days or so as a matter of routine. I once had an Alpine buck that gave milk. I only had to milk him out once a week or so though. One day I took a sample of his milk and sent it to the lab. It came back with 3.2% butterfat and a CMT negative. I even got brave and tasted some of it. It had a very good flavor, much to my surprise. Not bucky at all.

But you are right. Males generally don't give milk. At fairs when I was milking my goats I used to point out to the spectators that all mammals, including people, produce milk, and the purpose of the milk is to feed their young. I would tell them that dairy animals have been bred to produce a lot more than their babies could ever need. And then, in response to a question I would get several times every day I would tell them that no, goats do NOT eat tin cans. Some of them didn't believe me though.

Wow, that is SO not where I thought you were going with that, but I have a dirty mind (AI). I'm going to have to look that up, that seems awfully weird to me. As for the tin cans, all my family has been getting angry with me when I tell them they don't eat them.