You might think it’s your American duty to buy a few extra blocks of cheddar this weekend, given the U.S. government's need to purchase surplus cheese in order to help the dairy industry. But rest assured. You have already played your part.
Americans are eating more cheese than ever — consuming over 34 pounds per capita in 2015 — and there’s no end in sight for our love with this dairy staple.
“Cheese consumption has been continuously going up for the last 20 years, and it doesn’t seem to be stopping,” said Leslie Butler, an agricultural and resource economics lecturer at the University of California, Davis.
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