Beginning in the 1950s, some of the government’s purchased dairy had been used for meals in both the military and in public schools. But in the early 1980s, the federal stockpile of cheese garnered public attention. At the time the government had about 560 million pounds of cheese and much of it was beginning to rot. In 1981 U.S. Pres. Ronald Reagan authorized 30 million pounds of cheese to be given to states for distribution to low-income residents through the Special Dairy Distribution Program.
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