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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 KGIII on Saturday June 17 2017, @04:22AM (3 children)
Go on?
I am /technically/ a farmer.
I have just about 1.5 acres of garden, a bit under 2000 acres of woodlot, and 400 acres of blueberries. Also, I have chickens - but they're assholes. I also didn't invite them. They come from the neighbor's farm and decided to live on my lawn. I built them a house and call them my refugee chickens - it's a long story and, trust me, you don't want to get me started.
Seriously., tell me some more shit city folk say. I promise to giggle at the appropriate times. ;-)
"So long and thanks for all the fish."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 17 2017, @04:29PM (2 children)
Your refugee chickens do make me curious.
As for more dumb shit city folk say?
I recall the one who warned me that my having farmland on a slope meant that all the nutrients would be leached out of it by runoff rainwater. He was totally unable to explain the existence of 100 foot trees on my property in light of that.
Then the fellow who asserted that farming is stupid work for stupid people, and when I started to explain how modern farming is very far removed from what his great-grandpappy did just shut it all down with handwaving about Monsanto and the Devil Frankenfood.
Speaking of devils and evil, there was one (actually, come to think of it, more than one over the years) who intimated that I was evil for driving a truck. And got very offended when I pointed out that even if you fit their rinky-dink grocery getters with towbars, they couldn't credibly haul what I haul, where I haul it. And even then, burning more fuel for multiple round trips.
Then of course the usual self-righteous vegan screaming (well, maybe more screeching than screaming) about how I'd never eat meat if I had to kill the animals myself. No shit, that really got thrown in my face. I invited that one to come to our personal use slaughter day.
Along the same lines as the foregoing: "Don't you feel like a cannibal?" No. No, I really don't.
Or the one who wanted me to get rid of all my guns because ... some poorly articulated political reasoning about baby-killing. But was avowedly just fine with my hunting invasive pests with a longbow and broadheads.
I could go on, but the stupid burns. I need to go wash it off my synapses with some coffee.
(Score: 2) by KGIII on Saturday June 17 2017, @11:25PM
The closest I get to that is going down to the lake to watch the tourists wreck their boats and trucks while they try to navigate the boat ramp.
"So long and thanks for all the fish."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 20 2017, @09:33PM
Has a toddler ever killed someone with a longbow?