Americans store hundreds of thousands of tons of cheese in a cave in Springfield

Americans will not run out of cheese anytime soon

To understand the story, you have to go all the way back to the Farm Bill of 1949, which allowed the government-owned Commodity Credit Corporation to buy up various dairy products from farmers.

Telex used the following articles:

Why does the U.S. government have 1.4 billion pounds of cheese stored in a cave underneath Springfield, Missouri? (Deseret News);

Cheese Caves and Food Surpluses: Why the U.S. Government currently stores 1.4 billion lbs of cheese (The Farmlink Project);

How the US Ended Up With Warehouses Full of ‘Government Cheese’ (History)

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