Got Dairy? Got Murder. How they use your money to kill billions while making you fat.

To the contrary, annual cheese consumption in the United States has grown from 11 pounds per person in 1970 to 33 pounds per person now, which may help explain the rise in obesity and related illnesses. Dairy Management supports this troubling trend by encouraging fast-food restaurants to market new products laden with high-fat cheese. Its efforts include helping Domino’s develop extra-cheese pizzas containing two-thirds of the daily recommended amount of saturated fat per slice, according to a recent story in the New York Times.

Behind the Mustache

And Dairy Management, which has made cheese its cause, is not a private business consultant. It is a marketing creation of the United States Department of Agriculture — the same agency at the center of a federal anti-obesity drive that discourages over-consumption of some of the very foods Dairy Management is vigorously promoting.   NYTimes

Dairy Management does not cost the taxpayers much money – at least not directly. The corporation, created by the Clinton administration in 1995 pursuant to the Dairy Production Stabilization Act of 1983 (below), derives its budget of almost $140 million a year mostly from a mandatory assessment on all milk production in the continental United States, which farmers voted to impose on themselves. No doubt that gets passed along to consumers in the price of milk, butter, cheese and yogurt. But the secretary of agriculture appoints the board that supervises the expenditure of the money and approves Dairy Management’s marketing campaigns. There are similar entities designed to increase demand for other commodities such as beef and pork. The Supreme Court has called these programs “government speech” that does not violate the Constitution.

This little-known appendage of the Agriculture Department exists for one purpose: to encourage Americans to drink more milk and eat more cheese, so that dairy farmers can make more money.