I recently read a startling fact. Seven percent of adult Americans think that chocolate milk comes from brown cows. Yes, I said adult Americans. That amounts to 16.4 million people who don’t know that chocolate milk is made of milk, cocoa, and sugar.
A study in the ‘90s found that 1 in 5 adults don’t know that hamburgers are made from ground beef.
Interviews with 4th, 5th, and 6th graders at an urban California school revealed that more than half of them didn’t know pickles were cucumbers, or that onions and lettuce were plants. Four in 10 didn’t know that hamburgers came from cows. And 3 in 10 didn’t know that cheese is made from milk.
Ask them where food comes from and their answer is “the store.” But, where did the store get the food? For too many Americans, that question is one of life’s great mysteries.
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