Many Americans don’t know a whole lot about where their food comes from. In 2017, the Washington Post claimed that 7 percent of Americans believed that chocolate milk came from brown cows. In the early 1990s, a Department of Agriculture study found that 1 in 5 Americans didn’t even know that hamburgers are made from beef.
While there’s a significant amount of debate about the accuracy of studies like these, it’s fair to say that many Americans’ understanding of where their food comes from, or how it is processed, is significantly lacking.
