On Friday, June 16, 2017 at 11:52:53 AM UTC-4, BurfordTJustice wrote:
and they all vote democrate

Seven percent of adults in America think chocolate milk comes from brown
cows, according to a new survey from the Innovation Center of U.S. Dairy.
U.S. Dairy's Innovation Center surveyed more than 1,000 adults over the age
of 18 in April and found that seven percent of respondents thought that
brown cows make chocolate milk.

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An additional 48 percent of respondents did not know that chocolate milk is
made of milk mixed with cocoa butter and sugar.

The survey has attracted its fair share of snarky critics.

"Um, guys, it comes from cows - and not just the brown kind," wrote
Elisabeth Sherman of Food & Wine.

Snarky critics aside, agricultural experts say the survey's results show a
growing trend where Americans are "agriculturally illiterate," meaning they
do not know the process of how food goes from the farm to the kitchen table
or how other food items are made.

A 1990s study commissioned by the Department of Agriculture found that
almost 1 in 5 adults did not know that most hamburgers are made from beef.

That study also showed that Americans did not know the type of food animals
eat or the size of farms in the U.S.

The problem of food illiteracy is not just isolated to adults.

In one study from 2011, researchers found that more than half of the fourth,
fifth, and sixth-grade students they interviewed did not know pickles were
cucumbers or that vegetables such as onions came from plants.

Studies, however, say this is not representative of all of Americans. People
who live in agricultural areas, as well as people with higher incomes and
education levels, tend to know more about the source of food, according to
the Washington Post.

News flash! 7% of people are idiots

Cindy Hamilton