Seven percent of American adults believe that chocolate milk comes from brown cows, according to a survey conducted earlier this year by the Innovation Center for US Dairy.
This has nothing to do with books, but PG found it interesting/disturbing. He doubts that many Canadians would be so ill-informed.
Only 7%. I THINK YOU ARE UNDERESTIMATING.
We had some brindle dairy cows. Ever seen brindle milk?
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So did we. One of them got mastitis and gave brindle milk. Yuk! 🙂
Of course Canadians know chocolate milk doesn’t come from brown cows. Chocolate milk comes from the government.
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liberal govts provide Brown milk subsidies, conservatives think the cows should care for themselves, and our ndp don’t care unless they’re unionized and want health care.
In plastic bags.
That’s what happens when people get their knowledge from commercials. Wasn’t there a commercial about chocolate milk?
The survey was only a thousand people. I’m not convinced, however representative the survey is, that there are 16 million people who believe that.
Look at the White House…
I take heart that the number is so low. Seven percent is just background noise: people who didn’t listen to the question and will just say anything.
I think this is probably just an instance of people saying random things to pollsters ( http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/04/12/noisy-poll-results-and-reptilian-muslim-climatologists-from-mars/ ) rather than what americans really think.
You don’t want to know what I saw coming out of that spotted cow – though I might have been watching in the wrong place … 😛
Don’t forget to include the “f*** with pollsters” percentage.
I would have agreed that chocolate milk comes from brown cows. And buttermilk from yellow cows.
That’s what I suspect. Where I once worked we’d have an online poll popup on our site that asked your sex, ZIP code, and age. I’d always say I was a man my father’s age and my ZIP code was 90210.
@ Bill Peschel
And 0% fat milk comes from blue cows! 🙂
According to Nate Silver, it does comes from brown cows – as well as black cows, white cows, yellow cows, etc…