UK Youths Don't Know Where Bacon Comes From?

Either young people in Britain are comically ignorant about where food comes from or young people in Britain like to goof on survey-takers. Or maybe something in between. Whichever, British papers are aghast at the results. Some highlights of the poll of 2,000 youths, ages 16 to 23, from the Telegraph and Daily Mail:

• Milk: Most knew it comes from a dairy cow, but barely. Four in 10 got it wrong, with 7% clicking on a photo of wheat instead.
• Bacon: About 36% didn't know it comes from pigs; wheat got 8% here.

• Butter: Only four in 10 knew a dairy cow is the source for this, too.
• Eggs: They nailed this one, relatively speaking, with 67% picking the chicken. Which means, of course, that one-third got it wrong.
• Explanation? "Three in 10 adults born in the 1990s haven't visited a farm in more than 10 years," says a spokesman for survey creator LEAF (Linking Environment and Farming).