The crazy thing is cheese is so common in the US because the government did what government does and got involved in the dairy industry because of prohibition and things got out of hand and now we have stuffed crust pizza and the cheesy gordita crunch.
There is a disgusting amount of lobbying and corruption in the agricultural industry. However, food security is an important part of a country. You wouldn’t want to completely rely on other countries for food.
The government bought tons of milk to make ice cream during the war because ice cream took the social place of banned alcohol. They bought so much that dairy farmers scaled to meet demand. The government wanted to stop buying milk after the war and alcohol prohibition ended, that would have collapsed the market, so the government kept buying milk. They couldn’t do anything with the milk but turn it into cheese that had no distribution to homes, so they stuck it in a cave and everybody forgot about it, while still stockpiling the cheese for decades. Eventually Regan was given the hot potato and he gave us government cheese.
Well, dairy industry still needs to keep up demand, here comes the American Dairy Council and Dairy Management Inc with “Got Milk?”, the concept that milk is the best way to build strong bones, dairy being so important on the food pyramid(wholly a marketing plan imagined by the FDA headed by leaders of the food industries), bailing out Dominos with free cheese, and a strategic partnership with entities such as the Yum! Corporation to push more cheese into American diets.
We could have a healthy dairy industry with less milk products in our diets, but the government got more involved than they should have and doubled down to the detriment of the economy, industry, and the health of the citizens… Like they always do.
The crazy thing is cheese is so common in the US because the government did what government does and got involved in the dairy industry because of prohibition and things got out of hand and now we have stuffed crust pizza and the cheesy gordita crunch.
There is a disgusting amount of lobbying and corruption in the agricultural industry. However, food security is an important part of a country. You wouldn’t want to completely rely on other countries for food.
You don’t understand the issue.
The government bought tons of milk to make ice cream during the war because ice cream took the social place of banned alcohol. They bought so much that dairy farmers scaled to meet demand. The government wanted to stop buying milk after the war and alcohol prohibition ended, that would have collapsed the market, so the government kept buying milk. They couldn’t do anything with the milk but turn it into cheese that had no distribution to homes, so they stuck it in a cave and everybody forgot about it, while still stockpiling the cheese for decades. Eventually Regan was given the hot potato and he gave us government cheese.
Well, dairy industry still needs to keep up demand, here comes the American Dairy Council and Dairy Management Inc with “Got Milk?”, the concept that milk is the best way to build strong bones, dairy being so important on the food pyramid(wholly a marketing plan imagined by the FDA headed by leaders of the food industries), bailing out Dominos with free cheese, and a strategic partnership with entities such as the Yum! Corporation to push more cheese into American diets.
We could have a healthy dairy industry with less milk products in our diets, but the government got more involved than they should have and doubled down to the detriment of the economy, industry, and the health of the citizens… Like they always do.
Those cheese caves aren’t going to empty themselves.