AR-News: Editorial: Eat more (Wisconsin) cheese

[jim robertson]

Editorial: Eat more (Wisconsin) cheese

An editorial
September 3, 2003

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The U.S. Department of Agriculture says Americans now eat 30 pounds of 
cheese a year. That's up from just 6 pounds per person back in the 
mid-1940s, when the USDA started tracking the cheese phenomenon.

So here's our question: If Americans are eating so much more cheese, how 
come Wisconsin dairy farmers aren't prospering? Our bet is that the answer 
has something to do with the fact that other states - such as California and 
Vermont - seem to have made a far greater commitment to sustaining their 
cheese-makers and marketing their cheeses.

Published: 7:54 AM 9/03/03


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In fact, if one person is unkind to an animal it is considered to be 
cruelty, but where a lot of people are unkind to animals, especially in the 
name of commerce, the cruelty is condoned and, once large sums of money are 
at stake, will be defended to the last by otherwise intelligent people.
-- Ruth Harrison, author of Animal Machines

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