On Wed, 04 Aug 1999 13:59:56 -0500 William Wozniak
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I love this topic. Aside from asking answerable questions, it brings back fond
> memories of my childhood in Cleveland. It also points out that. in the past,
> there was a clear cognitive connection between the food we ate and the animal
> that gave it to us. My daughter has no trouble eating "pork" or "beef," but
> "pigs" and "cows" are another story.
>
When I was an undergraduate, I spent one weekend at my
roommate's home in Bergenfield, NJ. At supper one night, I was
describing life in the Southern US and was talking about my
grandfather, who had a tobacco and diary farm near Abingdon, VA.
At that point I had to explain my roommate's 12 year old sister
what was a dairy farm. She thought I was lying when I said that
the milk she was drinking came from cows, and became so upset
about the idea that she refused to drink any milk for the rest
of my visit. (And I didn't even have the opportunity to explain
the method by which it was obtained, only that it came from a
cow's body.)
Ken
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Kenneth M. Steele [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Associate Professor
Dept. of Psychology
Appalachian State University
Boone, NC 28608
USA
