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 wonkey_monkey on Saturday June 17 2017, @10:06AM (1 child)
Banana milkshake, on the other hand, is made by milking monkeys.
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(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Saturday June 17 2017, @10:16AM
Sure, but is the banana milkshake that is made by milking monkeys made from the milk milked by the milking monkeys, or do the milking monkeys keep the milk they milk for themselves and use other milk to make their monkey-made banana milkshake?
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.