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OPINION: Education is needed when kids ask questions like: 'Do you just chop the meat off and then it grows back?'

After being on farm with hundreds of children, Emily Ashworth saw first-hand why farm-to-fork education is vital

Emily Ashworth
Digital Editor
clock • 1 min read
OPINION: Education is needed when kids ask questions like: 'Do you just chop the meat off and then it grows back?'

It is hard to pinpoint when, as a country, we lost that connection to food. I am going to take a trip down memory lane – the butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker and all that, to a time when we bought...

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