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posted by mrpg on Saturday June 17 2017, @01:59AM   Printer-friendly
from the doesn't-it??? dept.

Seven percent of all American adults believe that chocolate milk comes from brown cows, according to a nationally representative online survey commissioned by the Innovation Center of U.S. Dairy.

If you do the math, that works out to 16.4 million misinformed, milk-drinking people. The equivalent of the population of Pennsylvania (and then some!) does not know that chocolate milk is milk, cocoa and sugar.

[...] For decades, observers in agriculture, nutrition and education have griped that many Americans are basically agriculturally illiterate. They don't know where food is grown, how it gets to stores — or even, in the case of chocolate milk, what's in it.

[...] Upton and other educators are quick to caution that these conclusions don't apply across the board. Studies have shown that people who live in agricultural communities tend to know a bit more about where their food comes from, as do people with higher education levels and household incomes.

[...] In some ways, this ignorance is perfectly logical. The writer and historian Ann Vileisis has argued that it developed in lockstep with the industrial food system.

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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by Grishnakh on Saturday June 17 2017, @03:30AM (2 children)

    by Grishnakh (2831) on Saturday June 17 2017, @03:30AM (#526789)

    At that point he resolved to move to a more rural area and grow a lot of his own food in his garden and get away from the morons

    And need I point to all the polls about how many Americans believe in angels

    Your friend made the wrong move. The people believing in angels are much more concentrated in the more rural areas, because rural dwellers are more religious than urban dwellers.

    The sad fact is that there's utter morons anywhere you go in this country. You're not going to get away from them by moving to any particular region, though you might find a slightly lower concentration if you get out of the South.

    The last election should be proof enough that most people in this country are complete morons. How else do you explain us winding up with two such horrible choices?

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  • (Score: 2) by t-3 on Saturday June 17 2017, @06:34AM

    by t-3 (4907) on Saturday June 17 2017, @06:34AM (#526846)

    [pedantic] actually they're much more concentrated in urban areas due to simple math, [/pedantic] your point is otherwise valid tho

  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by mhajicek on Saturday June 17 2017, @03:48PM

    by mhajicek (51) on Saturday June 17 2017, @03:48PM (#527016)

    Rural areas have a lower concentration of stupid people because they have a lower concentration of people.

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