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 fido_dogstoyevsky on Saturday June 17 2017, @11:24AM (2 children)
But isn't anybody who's going to be dishonest in all the other questions going to lie in the first one as well?
It's NOT a conspiracy... it's a plot.
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Sunday June 18 2017, @12:56PM (1 child)
Did you see the three characters at the end of my post?
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 2) by fido_dogstoyevsky on Sunday June 18 2017, @08:48PM
Yes, and my comment was meant as seriously as yours. I didn't notice my lack of a smiley until after I submitted.
It's NOT a conspiracy... it's a plot.