Kelly Robertson Farms

The last few days have drove home some realities from some meetings I went to last winter. 

Most people do believe that their food comes from a box, a bag, or the phone book.  It is amazing how little people, especially city/urban people know about food.  They seem to love their misconceptions and hold to them regardless of how much truth you tell them. 

At one meeting this winter they said that 70% of Americans don’t know what they are going to eat for their evening meal at 4 pm.  That number seems to be low, based on my experiences over the last few days.  I would say that 90% don’t have a clue what they are going to eat at the evening meal.  That being said, very few if any of them ever sit down to eat with their families.  Sad.

There is a difference between stupid and ignorant.  Stupid is that you can’t learn or just won’t learn.  Ignorant is that you just don’t know because you have never learned, or needed to learn a subject. 

I guess I am just amazed at how stupid people are these days about agriculture.