Posted on 01/10/2019 3:11:59 PM PST by bgill
More than 900,000 cubic yards of cheddar, American and Swiss currently sit in cold storage across the United States, enough cheese to form a wheel the size of the U.S. Capitol building. The excess is the biggest the country has seen since the government started keeping track a century ago, and it's 16 percent larger than the cheese surplus of 2016 when the government offered to buy up $20 million worth of excess cheese... "Part of it is changes in the domestic use of that milk." Another factor is trade — "a self-inflicted wound," Novakovic says. And there is growing concern among experts the glut could grow larger under the Trump administration, with the White House's trade war with China and Mexico's tariffs on U.S. dairy exports. As of September, annual cheese shipments were down 63 percent to China and 10 percent to Mexico. "That disruption has been particularly difficult for the cheese industry, and Mexicans are great consumers of cheese," Novakovic says. "Mexico is far and away our biggest customer and of course one of the few foreign customers we can serve with a truck instead of with a boat.
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you mean, it’s gonna be fun?
Central Planning at it’s finest.
or, could it possibly be, that ‘lactose intolerance’ (or the fashionable claim of having lactose intolerance) is more widespread in populations outside those of Northern European descent, so less dairy is being consumed by a specific population that is producing fewer children?
” According to a May 2002 article in the “American Family Physician,” some ethnic groups have high levels of lactose intolerance including up to 100 percent of Asians and Native Americans, 60 to 80 percent of blacks and 50 to 80 percent of Latinos. Conversely, only up to 15 percent of those with northern European ancestry have symptoms of lactose intolerance.
“Approximately 65 percent of the human population has a reduced ability to digest lactose after infancy. Lactose intolerance in adulthood is most prevalent in people of East Asian descent, affecting more than 90 percent of adults in some of these communities. Lactose intolerance is also very common in people of West African, Arab, Jewish, Greek, and Italian descent.
“The prevalence of lactose intolerance is lowest in populations with a long history of dependence on unfermented milk products as an important food source. For example, only about 5 percent of people of Northern European descent are lactose intolerant.
https://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/condition/lactose-intolerance#statistics
https://www.foodbeast.com/news/map-of-milk-consumption-lactose-intolerance-around-the-world/
In a sluggish Economy
Inflation, Recession
Hits the land of the free
Standing in unemployment lines
Blame the government For hard times
We just get by
However we can We all gotta duck
when the s___ hits the fan
10 kids in a cadillac
Stand in line for welfare checks
Let's all leach off the state
Gee! the money is really great!
Soup lines
Free loaves of bread
5lb blocks of cheese
Bags of groceries
Social security
Has run out on you and me
We do whatever we can
Gotta duck when the s___ hits the fan
Do bitty do wop wop say what yea
Cheese, esp. the harder types, has little or no lactose. Which is why it is popular on low-carb/keto diets.
I love cheese. Send me some cheese.
I can remember when I was a teenager and the Reagan administration was giving away government cheese (with accompanying Democrat whining about how unfair it is to make poor people eat cheese or something). Why does the government have a cheese stockpile? I didn’t know the answer to this in the ‘80s and I still don’t now.
“Well past time to get the Feds out of the milk price control/subsidy racket.”...…..
I totally agree. Yet go to the market and see what you pay for a pound of cheese.
Ooh, nom nom nom - where can I get some?
My grandmother got it at the senior center. It was the best American cheese I ever had. Must have been the aging.
Give it out in surplus foods to people on food stamps, and cut back on the amount of funds they get. I worked in the county welfare dept. back in ‘65, and they gave out cheese and big cans of peanut butter as surplus foods to welfare recipients.
I buy sliced package cheese, separate each slice with pre-cut dry wax paper sheets, and freeze it. It's just me, so it prevents the stuff getting moldy just sitting in the drawer in the fridge, waiting to be used.
What, no Colby? Dang! They never give away my choice...
The problem is PRICE. They have fixed the market to inflate the price and in doing so this is the result. And they will let it rot and throw it away before they lower the price. They are doing the very same thing with beef right now. They are giving very little on the hoof but inflating the wholesale and retail prices outrageously. The brokers are raping the market.
Absolutely...
It should be turned to age right. I remember back when they had the federal “Food Commodity” program. We got blocks of American cheese that was as sharp as extra sharp cheddar because it had been stored so long. It was desirable.:)
Well past time to get the Feds out of the milk price control/subsidy racket.
You mean whey past time.
“My grandparents got surplus cheese when I was a kid. Best cheese ever!”
I agree!!! Only upside of my parents destroying the family was the government cheese and honey!!!
Nothing better!!!!!
Worked at an institution late 70s to mid 80s. We had government cheese in big blocks. Loved the Cheddar and Swiss. Butter too! Big blocks of wonderful butter. We used to have the best grilled cheese sandwiches at work then...
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