The United States has a 1.5 billion pound cheese stockpile. Rivaled only by our strategic oil reserve stockpile.
The U.S. cheese stockpile weighs more than the Eiffel Tower, Statue of Liberty, Tower of Pisa, and the Great Sphinx of Giza—
combined.
The U.S. has 1.5 billion pounds of cheese in cold storage across the country—around $3.4 billion worth of cheese.
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The USDA has kept cheese and other dairy products in cold-storage caves for decades. But their purpose has shifted over the years.
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