Americans are disconnected from their food.  We live in a country where food is in abundance.  Restaurants line the streets in every city and grocery store aisles are filled with multiple options for almost any product.  For example, we designate an entire aisle to cereal!  The average person knows where they get their food, however they do not know where their food comes from.  They just walk into McDonalds, order some Chicken McNuggets, pay with their credit card, and go on about their day.  Completely oblivious to the fact that their order resulted in another chicken being put into the butcher line to be cut up and pressed into a nugget.