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Got Milk?
Yogurt, cheese, ice cream—countless tasty treats can trace
their roots to the common dairy cow. In fact, America needs 65,000
farms to satisfy its demand for milk-based products. Consider
these udderly surprising stats about the dairy industry.
Number of dairy cows
in the US
340
Number
of udder
squirts
needed
to fill one
milk pail
9,000,000
Average number of miles
milk travels from farm to
grocery store
Year
first
Dairy
Queen
opened
Years required to convert a traditional
dairy farm to certified organic
3.7
Percentage of US
dairy farms that
produce half of
the nation’s
milk supply
global greenhouse gas emissions that come
from livestock
150
3.5
Average
number
of pounds
of cheese an
American
eats in a year
26.4 Percentage of
total US cheese
production that takes
place in Wisconsin
Percentage of
dairy products
sold in the US
that are certified organic
21 billion
Number of cloned
cows in the US
25
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campaign’s
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54
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Gallons of milk
US dairy farms produce each year
Average percentage US
organic milk sales are
growing each year
18 | february-march 2008
Year
milk
bottle
was
invented
1884
1940:
Number of
Average number of pounds of cheese
that a French person eats in a year
30
100
20
billion
Profit
in dollars that
Nestlé makes
each year as the
world’s leading
dairy company
225