NFU BACK BRITSH FARMING - WHAT OUR CHILDREN THINK.............

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Healthy Eating Week highlights school children want to visit farms

Last updated: 05 Jun 2015

More than four in five primary age school children have said they would like to visit a farm to find out more about where their food comes from, a new survey from the British Nutrition Foundation has revealed.
The NFU says that these statistics, released for Healthy Eating Week, an event the NFU supports through the Back British Farming campaign, show that food and farming is a subject that people of all ages can engage with and can help them to make more informed choices about the food they eat.

The survey also found:

• 27% of primary school children said they had never helped to cook a meal at home;
• 39% of secondary school children said they would be more likely to buy or eat food if it was produced in the UK;
• 63% of secondary school children use the internet to find out more about how food is produced;
• 8% of secondary school children have never cooked a meal from scratch; (27% haven’t grown food before)
• 70% of teachers are more likely to buy or eat food produced in the UK.