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Nobody Is Moving Our Cheese: American Surplus Reaches Record High
By: Samantha Raphelson | NPR
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Americans consumed almost 37 pounds per capita in 2017, but that wasn’t enough to reduce the country’s 1.4 billion-pound cheese surplus. The stockpile of cheese started to build several years ago.