We Grow Food,

we eat food, it is a fact of life,

be it fish, fowl, meat, fruit or vegetable, and to show how this works Japan’s “Class of Life” is a controversial school project that aims to teach students about valuing their food and the environment by having them raise and then eat animals like fish and chicken, just like myself and Uncle Harry's yearly Christmas rabbit, anyway Japan’s Shimano Prefecture went viral on Chinese social media, leaving most viewers in a state of shock. The footage showed students preparing chicken eggs for hatching, raising the chicks for several months, and finally killing, cooking and eating the chickens. The Class of Life has been a part of Japanese curriculum at certain schools for over six decades, so most Japanese people are familiar with it, a controversial video currently doing the rounds on Japanese social media this week shows children as young as seven-years-old at Kakezuka Elementary School in Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, crying as they struggle to eat bits of fish. It’s not that they don’t like fish, but that they themselves helped raise those fish from babies, only to them have them being killed and sliced in front of their eyes, as part of the Class of Life, photograph NEGATIVECAFEBAR/Twitter,

according to Yahoo News, these special classes have been held at elementary schools in Tokyo and Shibuya Ward for two years, but this recent controversial segment put them into the spotlight, the Nippon Foundation, which reportedly hosts this project at seven elementary schools nationwide fought back against the criticism, claiming that because of growing environmental problems like global warming and over-fishing, engaging in a serious discussion about the value of fish as a food from a young age is very important, The Class of Life has its share of detractors in Japan, but many children and teachers who take part in it claim that life itself can be cruel, and that the best way to show you respect food is to eat and not waste it,

keeping to a grow your own food theme, I have noticed a number of people who have for a number of reasons now decided to keep chickens, for their eggs, in the UK and the USA, I guess they are keeping chickens to have fresh eggs and save money, so first things first, buy a chicken coop, like the one above, but I wonder how many new chicken keepers have really thought this through? it is a fact that the average egg consumer doesn’t know that hens stop laying eggs pretty early on in their lives, chickens live eight years on average, but hens only productively lay eggs in the first two, maybe three years of their lives, and on the commercial level, it’s closer to two years, and sometimes less, are the newbies going to wing the necks of their pets when they stop laying and eat them? welcome to the Class Of Life!