Parents, caregivers & educators
The grown-up side of One Fork Kids: what we teach, what we deliberately don't, and where every fact comes from.
Our approach
Children meet animals first, then learn how they live, then explore where food comes from. We never use shock imagery, fear or guilt, and we never suggest a child is better or worse than their friends because of what's on their plate.
Difficult topics — intensive farming, slaughter, environmental harm — are handled with diagrams and plain description, and the deeper material only opens at the oldest reading level.
Privacy
No accounts, no names, no birthdays, no location, no advertising, no third-party tracking, no comments and no messaging between users.
Badges, saved pages and reading level live in your device's own storage. Clearing the journal removes them completely.
Nutrition
Nothing here is medical advice. Children's needs vary with age, growth and health. Well-planned plant-based diets are recognised as suitable for children by several national dietetic bodies, with attention to vitamin B12, vitamin D, iodine, iron, calcium, zinc and omega-3.
Speak to a doctor or registered dietitian about your own child.
Talking about farming
Children often ask where meat comes from before adults feel ready. Answering plainly and calmly works better than deflecting: animals are raised, and then killed, for food, and people disagree about it.
Follow with agency: what could we do? What would you like to try? Children handle hard facts well when they're given something constructive to hold.
Educator Mode
Turning this on reveals extra detail on children's pages: deeper explanations behind Myth vs Fact cards and more advanced framing where available.
Where our facts come from
Scientific Opinion on the welfare of animals: sentience and affective states
European Food Safety Authority, 2022
Review of the Evidence of Sentience in Cephalopod Molluscs and Decapod Crustaceans
London School of Economics, 2021
Thinking Pigs: A Comparative Review of Cognition, Emotion and Personality in Sus domesticus
International Journal of Comparative Psychology, 2015
Thinking chickens: a review of cognition, emotion, and behavior in the domestic chicken
Animal Cognition, 2017
The Psychology of Cows
Animal Behavior and Cognition, 2017
Fish sentience and the precautionary principle
Animal Sentience, 2020
Tool manufacture by New Caledonian crows
Nature / University of Oxford, 2002
Elephant social and vocal behaviour
ElephantVoices / Animal Behaviour, 2011
Plant-based diets: food fact sheet
British Dietetic Association, 2021
Position of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics: Vegetarian Diets
Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, 2016
Reducing food's environmental impacts through producers and consumers
Science (University of Oxford), 2018
Tackling climate change through livestock
UN Food and Agriculture Organization, 2013
Global Assessment Report on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services
IPBES, 2019
Farm animal welfare standards
RSPCA, 2023
Vegetarian and vegan diets for babies and children
NHS (UK), 2022