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Title: 16.4 Million Americans Think Chocolate Milk Comes From Brown Cows, Survey Reveals
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Tech Times
URL Source: http://www.techtimes.com/articles/2 ... -brown-cows-survey-reveals.htm
Published: Jun 21, 2017
Author: Luan Chan
Post Date: 2017-06-21 19:33:26 by Hondo68
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A survey commissioned by the Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy returns shocking results. Seven percent of Americans believe brown cows produce the chocolate milk they drink. (U. Leone | Pixabay )
The Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy commissioned an online poll to determine whether Americans are knowledgeable when it comes to their dairy drink, but the results from adult respondents are shocking.
The online poll, which returned results from across North America, shows that at least 7 percent of Americans believe brown cows produce their much-loved chocolate milk drink. While it is true that the number seems low when compared to the other 93 percent who could be aware of where chocolate milk comes from, 7 percent already translates to roughly 16.4 million people.
The poll was commissioned as part of the celebration for National Dairy Month, which is celebrated every June.
How Now, Brown Cow?
The poll conducted by Edelman Intelligence for the Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy surveyed over 1,000 respondents aged 18 and above coming from all 50 states.
"Responses came from all 50 states, and the regional response breakdown was fairly even, with a slight uptick (approx. 10 percent higher) in the South," the Innovation Center's spokesperson Lisa McComb confirmed.
According to the survey, 48 percent of respondents did not know where chocolate milk comes from, while 7 percent were confident that it comes from brown cows. Perhaps it is worth taking into consideration that the 7 percent at least know that milk comes from cows, but the result is depressing, nonetheless.
The numbers are interesting, especially since they reflect a huge number of Americans who still believe in some dairy myths in 2017. For the record, however, chocolate milk is the result of combining cocoa, milk from cows of any color and pattern, and sugar.
The survey also returned interesting results when it comes to adult behavior because 29 percent of adults admitted to using their kids as an excuse to buy flavored milk for themselves. Adults also act like kids when milk is involved because 37 percent of respondents confessed that they drank straight from the container when nobody is looking.
Agricultural Knowledge And Awareness
The sad result could also mean many of the respondents decided to be funny with their answers, but then again, several surveys in the past have shown that many Americans are unaware of where their food comes from.
An early 1990s survey conducted for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, for instance, showed that one in five Americans did not know that beef is the main ingredient of hamburgers. It's not only cows that don't receive recognition because even kids nowadays don't connect the raw ingredient to the end product, such as cucumbers and pickles.
The disconnect is most likely due to the lack of knowledge on post-production processes and the fact that most food products can be conveniently found packaged in supermarkets.
For those who are left wondering about some other milk products, however, be aware that bunnies and marshmallow chicks don't produce milk.
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These are 16.4 Million of the Americans who elected Trump. (1 image)
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These are 16.4 Million of the Americans who elected Trump.
OMG Trump derangement syndrome has got you bad!!
These are demoncrap voters and there is no doubt about it!
#2. To: hondo68 (#0) (Edited)
I think some Americans may be this stupid but probably only 1%-2%.
I've begun to consider that there is a great unknown number of Americans who just lie to pollsters. Maybe they're just spoofing them. Maybe they're afraid their answers will be recorded and held against them later in some database (a pretty rational fear). Or maybe it's just their way to say "F Off" to libmedia.
It isn't hard to imagine that 3%-5% of the American public may be telling pollsters any daft thing they want to hear, just to screw with them. Americans are easily cantankerous enough to do something like that. There are signs of this in other Western countries, during the last Israeli election, during the Cameron election and Brexit vote in Britain, in the election of Trump.
#3. To: hondo68 (#0)
for a survey like this you have to wonder what the questions might be, you see in one sense the answer is right since milk comes from cows, and I am surprised that americans were able to identify this as the source. Personally I think milk comes from supermarkets, since there are no cows locally. However there are so many products labelled milk these days that you have no certainty what the source of the white substance forming the base for the product is
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