I have just watched the Jamie Oliver series Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution and just about fell of my chair.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3G2bHmXNBSA

Is the policy of NOT allowing primary school aged children to use a knife and fork at primary school a dastardly plan to ensure that the convenience food restaurant chains (a major cause of the obesity health epidemic around the world) are influencing the way young children not to eat properly unless its their product? To eat properly you need the skills to get the food from the plate to the mouth.

Does the USDA really think that pizza is a whole food considering these small children were having this for breakfast?

If folks can't even cook and prepare food from basic principles without the appropriate knowledge that even French fries are made from potatoes, let alone know that potatoes are grown in the soil, what on earth is going to happen in a economic or natural environmental related emergency where these just in time, highly automated and even perhaps unsustainable industrial food processing and distribution and delivery networks might not be available.

Or are we conditioning this generation for a Soylent Green future?

The mashed potato episode. OMG. What peel a spud!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFIF6_UBCbc