摘要：In the early 1980¡¯s, dairy farmers
were producing more milk and
dairy products than Americans
were consuming. Part of the surplus
was due to high Government dairysupport
prices which kept milk production
high, and part was due to
declining consumption of dairy
products among consumers. For
example, between 1970 and 1983,
per capita consumption of fluid
milk declined from about 269
pounds per year to about 227
pounds. During the same period,
per capita cheese consumption
declined from about 5 pounds to 4
pounds. Even per capita consumption
of frozen dairy products fell
from 28 pounds to 27 pounds per
year over the same period. Part of
the decline in the consumption of
dairy products, particularly milk,
was from the intense competition of
soft drinks, fruit drinks, and other
noncarbonated drinks aimed at adolescents
and young adults.
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