40 Percent of American Children Think Hot Dogs Are Vegetables
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Vaguely related: at least one die-hard vegan mom I know was committed to regularly feeding her kids meat until well into their teens - because being notably shorter (caused by not getting animal protein as a kid, at least in her mind) and eating different would be two big, painful strikes against her kids, in the often-cruel milieu of other children.
Why I can't but think of this doc.. er ...movie scene??
You throw kolrabi or dragon fruit at them and they curl up in a fetal position.
Basically all produce would have them flipping through picture manuals or calling the manager or having us explain to them what it was so they could search.
That's still very bad.
I can’t help but think people lack other things by avoiding it in their adult life.
Or Koreans
At any rate, even if a vegan diet is unhealthy for you, it’s a reasonable choice to make — I’ll sacrifice my health to do what I think is morally correct. Crucially, though, it’s a choice you have to make, and your parents shouldn’t be making for you. Once they grow up and are mature enough to decide for themselves, they can choose to go vegan.
Overall I have some issues with veganism, but, if you’re going to do it, this is an approach I can agree with (compared to a family friend who feeds her cats vegan cat food, despite them being obligate carnivores)
On a more positive note, at least 100% of the children correctly identified that you can’t eat sand.
I imagine the lethal dose is also fairly low, but meh, everything is lethal in a large enough quantity.
Does the study actually say this? As far as I can tell, it says that 1.14% of participants incorrectly suggested that both sand and dirt were edible (in the "Edibility Sorting Task" results)
This is stupid.
But in the context of food, at least in the US, vegetables are understood to be things like broccoli, bell peppers, zucchini, asparagus, celery root, parsnips. Potatoes are not considered vegetables.
Of course, you don't want to get into the whole controversy about tomatoes being vegetable or fruit. Some people even take this controversy further, to say bell peppers are actually fruit, and not vegetables.