The internet went from showing food recipe videos to alchemy in less than a decade. There’s going to be a quick video on how to make the philosopher’s stone from tomato sauce next week.
unless you’re planning on starting and completing a socialist revolution by november 6th there is absolutely no reason to abstain from voting. it is not a blood pact. you are not beholden to democrats when you vote for them over abstaining. there IS a lesser of two evils and it’s not inaction. every republican voted in kavanaugh and only one democrat did. statistically we are literally safer with democrats in office.
and no, i’m not planning on relinquishing communist ideals in deference to dems. i just don’t think as black and white as “anything short of a communist revolution is useless.” roe v wade is in jeopardy and women WILL die if it gets overturned. leftists sitting on their asses are about as useful as the thoughts and prayers of school shootings
“leftists sitting on their asses are about as useful as the thoughts and prayers of school shootings”
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once upon a time someone in the US gov did a big public awareness push about the problems associated with high fat diets, and one of the consequences was that americans switched from mostly drinking whole milk to mostly drinking reduced fat milk. like seriously these flip-flopped practically over night
and of course, as per goodhart’s law* this had lots of weird unintended consequences, like all the low-fat versions of food that were stuffed with lots of high fructose corn syrup (I SEE U CORN) to compensate, cuz just saying ‘eat less fat’ turns out to be an insufficient standard for actual healthy eating and frequently actually harmful.
(*goodhart’s law: when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.)
but the OTHER consequence is that the dairy industry, which was now removing lots more milk fat from their milk, suddenly had all this excess milk fat laying around. and they’re were like ‘wtf do we do with all this milk fat’?
and it turns out something that is pretty easy to make from milk fat is cheese. not necessarily GREAT cheese, but. cheese. so the dairy industry made lots of cheese for cheap. and also started all their campaigns to get people to eat more cheese. and also also processed food in general started putting cheese in all sorts of things they didn’t used to b/c HEY it is CHEAP. and suddenly cheese went from being something you ate on the side to being an *ingredient* and global cheese consumption went up and up an up and up. like, we’re talking in 1970 americans ate ~10lbs of cheese per year per person and now they eat 35lbs/yr.
BUT
remember this whole thing were food industries and government interact in weird ways? remember corn subsidies?
there are also dairy subsidies
and this means the US government buys all the extra milk that the dairy industry produces so that the industry doesn’t take losses or shrink or anything, except milk doesn’t exactly keep well, so. you guessed it. they buy cheese.
they store it in vaults.
we have cheese vaults
at one point the government actually gave out cheese as part of welfare programs cuz they just had SO MUCH CHEESE. it was called ‘government cheese.’ you lined up to get your family’s cheese block every month. you know that square, orange cheese that’s called ‘american cheese’? guess what.
anyway they stopped doing that at some point but don’t worry, the USA still has a HUGE CHEESE SURPLUS.
this is cuz we’re making records amount of milk, and records amount of milk fat, and when the prices are too TOO low it just kinda gets stored and uh… I guess things got out of hand?
we have 1.4 BILLION pounds of cheese. our cheese stockpile is at an all time high. why do we have so much cheese
oh god suddenly this post has FIGURES what am i DOING with my life
but don’t worry, that’s the entire USA’s stockpile, not the GOVERNMENT’s stockpile. The dairy industry only SOMETIMES asks the government to buy their extra cheese. We just bought out 90 million pounds of cheese in 2016 and uh… turns out when the government buys cheese and then gives cheese away via food banks this does not necessarily help the price of cheese.
anyway, I mostly forgot where I was going with this, I am just so distracted by the sheer amount of cheese. that is like. so much cheese. SO MUCH CHEESE. it’s like that old video where the chocolate assembly line gets out of control and Lucy can’t package the chocolate fast enough or even eat the chocolate fast enough and she’s just stuffing cheese in her mouth in a panic and wait did I say cheese agh
so anyway, americans are eating SO MUCH cheese and its gonna keep happening cuz a bunch of other factors like government subsidies and pushes to make us eat less milk fat are making it so they stick cheap milk fat in everything and also we have more cows and more milk production (thanks to good genetics) than ever before and american MILK consumption has fallen off dramatically, so rising cheese consumption is the only thing holding the dairy industry together at this point and etc etc ‘too big to fail’ etc it is a TANGLE
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