There was a picture in a recent Guardian of a boy with two potatoes firmly impaled on a garden fork. The caption is:
"A pupil at Coastlands Community primary school in Pembrokeshire shows there’s a real appetite for growing food. Schools are leading the way in promoting healthy eating, with 77% of children saying that they learn the most about food at school, according to a 2016 WWF survey of 500 UK parents and their children aged 7-12 years."
Whilst I don't really know what "learn the most about food at school" means – compared to where? home, presumably. One thing is clear, this hapless pupil doesn't know enough to avoid sticking his fork through the potato crop and hence reducing its quality and value. Does The Guardian, I wonder?
Or was this a bright idea from WWF for a photoshoot? If so, it makes you wonder how little WWF knows about food growing and harvesting.
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