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Article: U.S. cheese consumption up sharply - Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal:
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- Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal
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- September 22, 2004
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California Milk Advisory Board of Modesto. Americans are developing broader tastes in cheese and most of the cheese they are eating is made in the U.S., reports the study says. U.S. producers have supplied 92 percent of the 1.8 billion-pound increase in cheese consumption since 1994, with half of this new demand met by increased production in California alone, the milk lobby says. The study also notes that specialty cheese consumption, on a per capita basis, has grown five times faster than total cheese consumption over the past decade. Americans consumed 8.8 billion pounds of cheese in 2003 with a total market value of $39.9 billion, according to the study. Of this total, commodity ...