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Article: Cheese consumption reaches record 8.8 billion pounds, study says.
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- September 23, 2004
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By Rick Romell, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Sep. 23--Monty Python had it right: Blessed are the cheesemakers -- at least in business.
For decades, Americans have been packing away increasing amounts of cheese, and last year was no exception. Cheese consumption, according to a new study, hit a record 8.8 billion pounds in 2003. That's more than 30 pounds for every man, woman and child in the United States.
The latest analysis comes out of California -- Wisconsin's chief rival for the country's cheese-producing crown -- but still holds good news for America's Dairyland.
"It's been a great thing ...