Data source: USDA Economic Research Service, Food Availability Per Capita Data System
Tools: Python / AI
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If food availability is a proxy for consumption, won’t government subsidies and general waste skew the results?
BatmanOnMars on
The artisan milk scene has not really taken off like the fancy cheese scene, and milk still doesn’t come in 18 thousand varieties. I can get orange and maple milk locally though.
auntieup on
Yeah, but cheese has gotten really good here
Rawwh on
So, too, have LDL results.
easypeasycajuneasy on
As a kid in 1970, I drank milk without problems. As an adult I gradually lost the ability to digest lactose.
T_Funky on
That’s not that much cheese!
Pitiful-Mobile-3144 on
I’ve read that a big part of the “push to eat cheese” is that it’s a way for the industry to use all the fat removed from other dairy products.
Low/non-fat milk, Greek yogurt, cottage cheese, and whey protein and others have much of the fat removed, and the industry has been searching for ways to use it. Cheese was the big play, it’s a high-margin and long-lasting food that looks great on video. Think about all the cream cheese “meal hacks” on tiktok, or cheese pull videos, plus the still-rising popularity of pizza. It’s a big success in the industry to use it all in a constructive way imo
That being said, we do make some really great cheeses as well, didn’t the US win an international competition a few years back?
![Americans eat 3x more cheese and half as much milk as they did in 1970 [OC]](https://www.byteseu.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/y0LwEHOl1pvdnlj0vKThWYnCEQ0qjMmDAvkNSVLO57c-1536x1114.png "Americans eat 3x more cheese and half as much milk as they did in 1970 [OC]")
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Data source: USDA Economic Research Service, Food Availability Per Capita Data System
Tools: Python / AI
If food availability is a proxy for consumption, won’t government subsidies and general waste skew the results?
The artisan milk scene has not really taken off like the fancy cheese scene, and milk still doesn’t come in 18 thousand varieties. I can get orange and maple milk locally though.
Yeah, but cheese has gotten really good here
So, too, have LDL results.
As a kid in 1970, I drank milk without problems. As an adult I gradually lost the ability to digest lactose.
That’s not that much cheese!
I’ve read that a big part of the “push to eat cheese” is that it’s a way for the industry to use all the fat removed from other dairy products.
Low/non-fat milk, Greek yogurt, cottage cheese, and whey protein and others have much of the fat removed, and the industry has been searching for ways to use it. Cheese was the big play, it’s a high-margin and long-lasting food that looks great on video. Think about all the cream cheese “meal hacks” on tiktok, or cheese pull videos, plus the still-rising popularity of pizza. It’s a big success in the industry to use it all in a constructive way imo
That being said, we do make some really great cheeses as well, didn’t the US win an international competition a few years back?
The milk is all UHT now. It’s undrinkable shite.