If you go to the Innovation Center for US Dairy's
website, their top frequently asked question is: "Does chocolate milk come
from brown cows?". They
answer it clearly and politely:
"Actually, chocolate milk – or any flavored
milk for that matter – is white cow’s milk with added flavoring and
sweeteners".
Unfortunately, this message does not appear to be
sinking in with the American public, as a survey commissioned by the Center has
found that a whopping 7 percent of Americans still think that chocolate milk
comes directly out of a brown cow. If you multiply that, that's 16.4
million people nationwide who think that chocolate milkshake could potentially
be drunk directly from a cow's udder, Food
and Wine reports.
The nationally representative survey gets more
alarming. Forty-eight percent of respondents admitted they weren't
sure where chocolate milk comes from. If this is true across the nation
generally, that would be an astounding 154,272,000 potential voters who
aren't confident enough to guess "cows?".
Unfortunately, this isn't an isolated case of
Americans being uninformed about where food comes from. A study in the early '90s found
that 20 percent of adults didn't know that hamburgers are made of meat from
cows.
Strangely, Innovation Center for US Dairy's study
also found that 37 percent of people secretly drank milk straight out of the
container in the fridge, in extremely poor milk/fridge etiquette. Another 29
percent use their children as an excuse to buy chocolate milk, so that they can
drink it themselves.
The survey of over 1,000 adults also reports that 95
percent of Americans have some kind of cheese in their fridge. We are hoping
they will conduct a follow-up study to look into whether Americans think
blue cheese comes from blue cows.
Stilton does not come from blue cows, by the way. Pexels/IFLS
[H/T: Washington Post]
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