• LaGG_3 [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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          2 years ago

          My young child learns about farms in stuff in school, but it’s a super sanitized “Old MacDonald” style thing instead of seeing the horror of the factory style farms we have in this country lol.

          I think there’s a bit more education about farms for older kids in rural areas with proximity to agricultural labor, but yeah kinda uncommon here.

    • I shouldn’t be surprised since most “first-world” nations are like this, but how can people NOT know that apples grow from trees or

      spoiler (CW: how meat is produced)

      meat comes from slaughtering animals, usually in inhumane factory conditions?

      Also, most of the produce sold in supermarkets are plucked before they’re ripe so they can survive the lengthy shipping time.