16.4M American adults think chocolate milk comes from brown cows
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Honestly people, if you got a survey question:
Where does chocolate milk come from?
1) chocolate powder
2) Canada
3) brown cows
4) Bigfoot
how would you answer?
I would probably pick 4)
I think the survey itself is a troll to see how much publicity it can get...4 -
So when a cow laughs, does milk come out it's nose?5
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Motorsheen wrote: »estherdragonbat wrote: »And spreadable processed cheese comes from Laughing Cow
spreadable processed cheese has never struck me as amusing, never mind hilarious.
cows must possess an odd sense of humour
It's udderly ridiculous.6 -
Much education is needed for most of the population regarding health, exercise, and basic food preparation. It is a passion of mine. As a nurse I know first hand how we do not really educate enough.0
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This is why we need to teach actual science in our classrooms and not pseudo-science or religion as science. Teach the spiritual stuff as religion. We could all benefit from being more literate regarding other faiths.2
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Garbage survey.1
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My stepfather used to put chocolate syrup in the bottom of the bucket for the one all brown cow. Had my brother convinced, the following year the cow developed a white patch. Suddenly, no longer had chocolate milk. Poor kid...14
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Yeah right.0
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The NPR report on the story gave no indication that "chocolate milk comes from white milk mixed with chocolate" was among the multiple choices to the "Ridiculousness for immediate publication poll".3
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I desperately want this to be the result of a bunch of smart *ss answers. Unfortunately, know better.
I spend part of my time working in an outdoor/living history museum. We have tilled fields and kitchen gardens, livestock and poultry. Like other museums of our type we have a litany of stories of surprised and confused visitors. People who genuinely did not know that eggs came from chickens, bacon from pigs, milk from cows, canned corn nibblets from ears of corn, eggplant from a green leafy plant, and on, and on. They are not all children. A frightening portion of the American population does not know where they food they put in their mouth came from. Of those who do understand that it starts with cows, chickens, plants, etc. on farms an even greater portion of our population has no clue about how it gets from that farm onto their plates. It is frightening in a number of ways.3 -
So I ran across the transcript of an NPR interview about this, and I have to wonder about this survey now. http://www.npr.org/2017/06/16/533255590/alarming-number-of-americans-believe-chocolate-milk-comes-from-brown-cows
"CORNISH: Jean Ragalie-Carr is president of the National Dairy Council, which commissioned the survey. She says they put that question to a thousand people and gave them several options for how to answer.
RAGALIE-CARR: Well, there was brown cows or black-and-white cows, or they didn't know."
Ummm, wait, what? Am I stupid for not knowing what color milking cows are?
They are also making a big deal that 49% said "I don't know" but if the three answers above were my choices, that's probably what I would have picked.
Also, from the website of the org that commissioned the survey, this was posted in the comments section when someone complained they couldn't find the actual survey online anywhere:
https://dairygood.org/Content/2014/4-Chocolate-Milk-Myths-Busted
"The full survey currently isn’t posted anywhere. The survey was conducted by Edelman Intelligence to kick off our Undeniably Dairy campaign on behalf of the Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy.
The purpose of the survey was to gauge some interesting and fun facts about consumers’ perceptions of dairy, not a scientific or academic study intended to be published, yet the USA Today Snapshot’s interest in the chocolate milk stats, and subsequent coverage of that, has brought on the attention.
While the study wasn’t intended for public consumption, it is statistically valid. The study polled 1,000 American adults online between May 5 and May 9, 2017. Responses came from all 50 states, and the regional response breakdown was fairly even.
Hope that helps shed some light."
So a joke survey of 1,000 people was misreported by a crap news organization and now everyone is saying 16 million Americans don't know where chocolate milk comes from10 -
NorthCascades wrote: »http://www.kiro7.com/news/trending-now/there-are-some-adults-who-think-chocolate-milk-comes-from-brown-cows-survey-says_/533999179
So where does strawberry milk come from...?
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Thanks, kimny. That sheds a lot of light on this whole thing.3
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This is why we need to teach actual science in our classrooms and not pseudo-science or religion as science. Teach the spiritual stuff as religion. We could all benefit from being more literate regarding other faiths.
Totally agree. My son's public *middle* school teaches the cultural and historical aspects of the Muslim, Christian, Pagan, and Jewish faiths. In Social Studies. Where it belongs. We're Atheist, so none of *the doctrine* matters to us, but it's nice he'll understand their beliefs and culture.0 -
We seriously met a woman working at Dunkin Donuts this past weekend who answered this question with: "Well, milk comes from black and white cows and people add mocha to it to change the color". LMFAO She was kinda right!1
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ok so I'm thinking a lot of those people were being sarcastic when they answered, lol!2
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Milk can come from brown cows, though. Swiss, anyone?0
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Does buttermilk come from fatter cows?
This explains the seasonal price fluctuations of ice cream. Only available from cold cows.2 -
Well, I've heard ice cream comes from Alaskan cows
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I just feel bad for the cows that make ice cream...1
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This is why we need to teach actual science in our classrooms and not pseudo-science or religion as science. Teach the spiritual stuff as religion. We could all benefit from being more literate regarding other faiths.
What religious teachings are being applied to lessons on dairy science that would lead to the *alleged* confusion in this deeply flawed and ridiculous survey, and where, specifically, is this dairy science curricula being taught?
My kids go to a parochial school where they receive an impeccable scientific education, including a field trip to a dairy farm in first grade. To my knowledge, there is nothing in the bible that would negate what they learned about the fundamental aspects of milk production, packaging and flavor enhancement.
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This is why we need to teach actual science in our classrooms and not pseudo-science or religion as science. Teach the spiritual stuff as religion. We could all benefit from being more literate regarding other faiths.
Huh? What does religious education have to do with this? I can't recall a verse in the Bible that states "On the 6th day, God created the brown cow and ordered it to be fruitful and produce a delicious chocolate beverage for all."
This is just an example of people trolling the survey or being very sadly ignorant of where food comes from.4 -
...and butter comes from butterflies1
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SiegfriedXXL wrote: »This is why we need to teach actual science in our classrooms and not pseudo-science or religion as science. Teach the spiritual stuff as religion. We could all benefit from being more literate regarding other faiths.
Huh? What does religious education have to do with this? I can't recall a verse in the Bible that states "On the 6th day, God created the brown cow and ordered it to be fruitful and produce a delicious chocolate beverage for all."
This is just an example of people trolling the survey or being very sadly ignorant of where food comes from.
Ooh, I think I found it: "Here beginneth the laws of the Holy Brown Cow of Antioch. And Saint Bovinus raised the Brown Cow on high, saying, O Lord, Bless this Thy Brown Cow that, with it, Thou mayest provide a feast of Chocolateth Milk for thine peoples. But no Chocolateth Milk shall be provided to thine enemies, who, being naughty in Thy sight, shall snuff it."
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