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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.
(Score: 2) by Lagg on Saturday June 17 2017, @03:46AM (1 child)
Okay I can't believe there isn't some kind of trollery afoot right now. I shit you guys not, I just saw someone ranting about how trump voters are so stupid they'd think chocolate milk comes from brown cows. Before this article.
I mean come on now. Do people think these americans buy the premixed chocolate milk and never saw syrup before? That premixed stuff is expensive and inefficient!
This is the only explanation I have here. I just can't believe something this headline friendly without going "wait wot". I might be willing to believe it from the named urban California school only and it said "7% of california high schoolers". Not that it's an excuse, but it'd be pretty blindsiding if wisconsin didn't know where cheese came from, Georgia thinks pickles are their own fruit and California isn't the biggest milk producer in the country.
Also this was commissioned by some kind of Dairy collective. The milk underworld is darker and deeper than most eldritch things.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 17 2017, @04:26AM
I made another comment about how I suspect polls and clickbait articles are part of a larger propaganda campaign to discredit democracy because "everyone's an idiot so we need smart dictators that aren't impeded by morons."