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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: 2) by AthanasiusKircher on Saturday June 17 2017, @11:41PM

    by AthanasiusKircher (5291) on Saturday June 17 2017, @11:41PM (#527202) Journal

    Yes, I know. "Pickle" in the U.S. means that too. I pickle various vegetables myself all the time, using both your brining method as well as fermentation methods (which generate acidity from bacteria growth, rather than vinegar). But in the U.S. without other context the word "pickle" generally refers to a pickled cucumber.

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