(Before It's News)
America’s cheese surplus had reached a 30-year high while dairy producers’ revenue had declined by 35 percent in the last two years.
To reduce milk supply in 1985, the government paid farmers $1.5 billion to slaughter their cows. In 2016 the U.S. Department of Agriculture moved to help dairy farmers once again by spending $20 million to get 11 million pounds of excess cheese off the market, sending it to food banks.
“I have no country to fight for; my country is the Earth, and I am a citizen of the World.” – Eugene V. Debs
Source:
http://mailstrom.blogspot.com/2016/09/too-much-food.html