What happened to basic food skills in school

[ajklsghlaksgj]

I just want to point out that undercooked pork will - apparently quite frequently- contain toxoplasma gondii. I have read a report by the new zealand government saying it was present in something like 8 out of 36 *"cooked, ready to eat"* hams. There are many other ways to catch it, though, esp. soil.

Some sources say this pathogen is nothing to worry about, but if you look at the more recent research, it turn out it might be very bad.

The pathological effects are relatively subtle, but once you've caught it you'll have it for life, so the effect adds up, and up.

I bet people will be vaccinated against it in the future (it's easy).

People will look back thinking "gee, no wonder everyone was so dumb back then" (they'll probably say that about lots of things, though) (just reffering to how some people tend to do that sometimes wrt people in the middle ages etc.)

No offense intended here, I'm just saying (people tend to get offended for some reason when I post things like this (I read the angry toxocologist's blog))

[foodpump]

Seraphim, that's what I'm doing....
I run a little pastry and chocolate shop. On the side I offer classes to kids, basic stuff: making cookies, pies, cakes. Kids are from 6-15 years old.

I always try to find out how much the kids know about food in the first 5 minutes of the class. When making cookies, I'll introduce the ingredients: Butter, eggs, flour, sugar, cocoa, etc.

Now comes the kicker: Where do eggs come from? Most of the kids can guess they come from chickens. Butter? Close to 90% don't know. About 5% say butter comes from cows. I joke and say I never saw a cow that gave butter, as far as I know, cows only produce two items on a daily basis, one is milk, and the other you don't want to know.

I see it as my job to secretly brainwash the kids into knowing how to make an acutual cookie, how to use ingredients, and where ingredients come from.
According to the gospel of televison and advertising, this is sacreligious, as mass produced tastes better and looks better.

[the_seraphim]

toxoplasma gondii causes toxoplasmosis doesnt it? and i know thats really bad...

either way, i still cook my pork to white meat... after all its a white meat, not a pink meat