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