And when it comes to the humble bacon sandwich, a third are unaware its meaty filling comes from a pig - with three per cent believing cows produce it.
A third are also ignorant of where we get our milk and did not know that eggs came from chickens. Fifteen per cent think they came from a crop, a Linking Environment And Farming report says.
Caroline Drummond, chief executive of Leaf, said: 'We sometimes hear that our food knowledge may be declining but this research shows how bad the situation has become.'
'Three in ten adults born in the nineties haven't visited a farm in more than ten years, if at all, which is a real shame for our farmers.'
never would have believed that !!
A third are also ignorant of where we get our milk and did not know that eggs came from chickens. Fifteen per cent think they came from a crop, a Linking Environment And Farming report says.
Caroline Drummond, chief executive of Leaf, said: 'We sometimes hear that our food knowledge may be declining but this research shows how bad the situation has become.'
'Three in ten adults born in the nineties haven't visited a farm in more than ten years, if at all, which is a real shame for our farmers.'
never would have believed that !!