The surprising number of American adults who think chocolate milk comes from brown cows

Quote: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.

One Department of Agriculture study, commissioned in the early ’90s, found that nearly 1 in 5 adults did not know that hamburgers are made from beef. Many more lacked familiarity with basic farming facts, like how big U.S. farms typically are and what food animals eat.

CroqueMitaine wrote:

The surprising number of American adults who think chocolate milk comes from brown cows

Quote: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.

One Department of Agriculture study, commissioned in the early ’90s, found that nearly 1 in 5 adults did not know that hamburgers are made from beef. Many more lacked familiarity with basic farming facts, like how big U.S. farms typically are and what food animals eat.

Wondering from where they think chocolate comes from

I dread to think where anything brown comes from now,,,,yikes

Yeah...In Some parts of America doesnt know about those matters....They have their own mind of thinking or connotations that the chocolates milk they would drink came from a brown cows....lol ....Oh my...We know around the world the milk we drink always came from a purely natural white color from the cows ..If we are drinking a milk with the color of pink...It is the flavor of( Strawberry ) Then When we are drinking a milk with the color brown...It is the flavor of ( Chocolates )...And A white color of milk ..Its understandable that is a purely natural color of milk came from the cows....But We doesnt blame those american's came from the country of Pennsylvania because They doesnt informed with their respective parents about those matters...And Even on the school where in those teacher's should teach on them about the real natural milk came from a cows....We are aware the educations begins athome where in those kids teach for their respective mom's about the milk they are drinking insides their bottle...so that when they became also a parents....They also imparted their knowledge with their respective children and Next generations at all ....

We know and Aware there are some manufactured of dairy products that It has exist now.. A different kind of flavor milk in the market so that those consumer's has many varieties of milk they choice....Some of them try any kind of flavor like Chocolates flavor...Strawberry flavor & Natural purely white flavor of milk.. Until They would decides which the dairy product they would drink on it...Like for me...I love for drinking of Strawberry milk flavor because I love the taste and Its delicious ...Besides Strawberry is our favorite fruits with my hubby...

Globalization = Amerikanization

Amerikanization = Stupidization

Stupidization = 10% [ Elite ] Rule

10% Elite Rule = We are idiots

7% Amerikans = 90% of future World Population

If you notice that the source is from a "nationally representative online survey", it means that used the same kind of survey we answer for money to get the results. So there probably was at least one Clixsense member who answered "Yes" to "Does chocolate milk come from brown cows?", AND they got paid for that!

People were most likely joking around and the survey people took it too seriously. Also, Americans aren't as stupid as some media outlets try to make us.

RoseGold wrote: Do Americans know where Soy Milk, Almond Milk, Coconut Milk, comes from I do No dummy here

Careful there are probably people picturing soy beans, almonds, and coconuts all hooked up to milking machines or some farmer milking them. lol

LASTONTAS24 wrote: .I love for drinking of Strawberry milk flavor because I love the taste and Its delicious ...Besides Strawberry is our favorite fruits with my hubby...

Strawberry milk

jeweled wrote:

RoseGold wrote: Do Americans know where Soy Milk, Almond Milk, Coconut Milk, comes from I do No dummy here

Careful there are probably people picturing soy beans, almonds, and coconuts all hooked up to milking machines or some farmer milking them. lol

There is that Magician dude out there in vegas that pranked people saying you had to milk the almonds to get the milk from them it was funny as hack.

CroqueMitaine wrote:

The surprising number of American adults who think chocolate milk comes from brown cows

Quote: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.

One Department of Agriculture study, commissioned in the early ’90s, found that nearly 1 in 5 adults did not know that hamburgers are made from beef. Many more lacked familiarity with basic farming facts, like how big U.S. farms typically are and what food animals eat.

Luckily I grew up on a farm so know where milk, butter and eggs come from. I also know how to help when it comes calving time. However city folks think milk comes from the store.

i hate to point out the obvious, butttttt. this results came from a survey, now what does this say about the quality of american survey takers? should you really trust poll numbers when this many think a brown cow gives you chocolate milk?

just saying.

then again it could be 7% were just goofing around and didn't care?

CroqueMitaine wrote:

LASTONTAS24 wrote: .I love for drinking of Strawberry milk flavor because I love the taste and Its delicious ...Besides Strawberry is our favorite fruits with my hubby...

Strawberry milk

Lol....Yeah....CroqueMitaine...I find it mistakes for wrote a message of " STRAWBERRY FRUITS "....instead of " STRAWBERRY MILK "...

helloworld111 wrote: If you notice that the source is from a "nationally representative online survey", it means that used the same kind of survey we answer for money to get the results. So there probably was at least one Clixsense member who answered "Yes" to "Does chocolate milk come from brown cows?", AND they got paid for that!

Can't blame it on me! I rarely qualify for surveys so don't really make the effort to do any.

Probably the same crew that do not know what year the War of 1812 took place! Idjits!

RoseGold wrote: Do Americans know where Soy Milk, Almond Milk, Coconut Milk, comes from I do No dummy here

I'm not an American. But the answer is obviously soy cow, almond cow, and coconut cow.

"online survey" that says it all