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USDA: MyPlate: Dairy Group (accessed 2025)

Code of Federal Regulations: 210.10 Meal requirements for lunches and requirements for afterschool snacks. (2025)

True Health Initiative: New Dairy-Funded Chocolate Milk Study Targets Teen Athletes (2019)

STAT: Mayo Clinic’s partnership with dairy poses conflict of interest, critics say (2025)

Center for Nutrition Studies: Dairy-Funded Study Claims Yogurt Fights Inflammation (2019)

Open Secrets: Deep-pocketed dairy industry continues war on plant-based milk as FDA hears comments on new draft guidance (2023)

Congress of the United States: Letter to the Honorable Robert M. Califf, M.D. (December 16, 2016)

USDA: Milk Price Support Program (2004)

Politico: Why are farmers telling kids what to eat? (2016)

Research Gate: Food for Fitness: A Daily Food Guide (accessed 2025)

USDA: A Guide to Understanding the 1977 Food and Agricultural Legislation (1978)

Kirk Kardashian: Milk Money (2012)

Eric M. Erba and Andrew M. Novakovic: The Evolution of Milk Pricing and Government

Intervention in Dairy Markets

History: How the US Ended Up With Warehouses Full of ‘Government Cheese’ (2025)

The American Presidency Project: Statement About Distribution of the Cheese Inventory of the Commodity Credit Corporation (1981 statement)

Clickhole: Heartbreaking: The Worst Person You Know Just Made A Great Point (2018)

University of Wisconsin-Madison, Farm Management: A History of Dairy in the Farm Bill and What It Means for the Current Legislation (accessed 2025)

Marion Nestle: FOOD LOBBIES, THE FOOD PYRAMID, AND U.S. NUTRITION POLICY (1993)

Cleveland Clinic: Is Dairy Milk Good for You? (2023)

The American Journal of Medicine: The Epidemic of the 20th Century: Coronary Heart

Disease (2014)

Medline Plus: Lactose Intolerance (accessed 2025)

Saveur: Why ‘Got Milk?’ Is One of the Greatest Ad Campaigns of All Time (2022)

Penn State Extension (USDA data): Dairy Product Trends - Fluid Milk (updated 2023)

The New York Times: While Warning About Fat, U.S. Pushes Cheese Sales (2010)

PMQ Pizza: Meet Dr. Cheese, the Scientist Behind Pizza Hut’s New Detroit-Style Pizza (accessed 2025)

USDA: Report to Congress on the National Dairy Promotion and Research Program and the National Fluid Milk Processor Promotion Program: 2009 Program Activities (2011)

The New York Times: Documents on Marketing Cheese (2010)

USDA: Report to Congress on the National Dairy Promotion and Research Program and the National Fluid Milk Processor Promotion Program (2006)

PubMed: The impact of calcium and dairy product consumption on weight loss (2005)

Nutrition Journal: Major food sources of calories, added sugars, and saturated fat and their contribution to essential nutrient intakes in the U.S. diet: data from the national health and nutrition examination survey (2003–2006) (2013)

Vox: Big Milk has taken over American schools (2024)

Michele Simon: Whitewashed: How Industry and Government Promote Dairy Junk Foods (2014)

UN FAO: Livestock’s Long Shadow (2006)

The New York Times: The Colorado River Is Shrinking. See What’s Using All the Water. (2023)

Civil Eats: California Dairy Uses Lots of Water. Here’s Why It Matters. (2022)

The Dairy Site: Livestock a major threat to environment - Remedies urgently needed (2006)

Truth Tobacco Industry Documents: A PROPOSAL FOR R.J. REYNOLDS INDUSTRIES, INC. (1977)

PRovoke Media: Edelman’s American Petroleum Institute Assignment Ends (2015)

Ag Moos: DMI by the numbers, proprietary path of partners is paved (2019)

Edelman: Dairy Management Inc: Undeniably Dairy (2017)

Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy: U.S. Dairy Sustainability Report 2021 - 2022

Science Direct: Collecting complex comprehensive farm level data through a collaborative approach: A framework developed for a life cycle assessment of fluid milk production in the US (2013)

Science Direct: Carbon and water footprint of U.S. milk, from farm to table (2013)

Science Direct: Regional analysis of greenhouse gas emissions from USA dairy farms: A cradle to farm-gate assessment of the American dairy industry circa 2008 (2013)

Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy: U.S. Dairy Sustainability Commitment Progress Report (December 2010)

Ag Proud: Progressive Dairy: The ‘now and then’ of long-day lighting (2023)

Vox: The Aubrey Plaza ad for Big Dairy that may have violated federal law, explained (2023)

Journal of Dairy Science: Greenhouse gas, water, and land footprint per unit of production of the California dairy industry over 50 years (2020)

World Population Review: Lactose Intolerance by Country 2025

Dietary Guidelines for Americans: Food Sources of Calcium (2025)

Ag Proud: Progressive Dairy: Checkoff Watch: Meet the checkoff’s social media Dairy Dream Team (2024)

Des Moines Register: Vilsack: Agriculture unfairly blamed for climate change (2014)

U.S. Dairy Export Council: Tom Vilsack to Take Helm of U.S. Dairy Export Council (2017)

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Ex-agriculture secretary Tom Vilsack is the top paid executive at Dairy Management (2019)

Rigged: S1, Ep3: A Tie is a Win (2021) 

Springer Nature: Rethinking methane from animal agriculture (2021)

Environmental Research Letters: Unintentional unfairness when applying new greenhouse gas emissions metrics at country level (2019)

Environmental Research Letters: GWP* is a model, not a metric (2022)

USDA: Cheese Consumption Continues to Rise (2005)

Cheese Reporter: Per Capita Cheese Consumption Was Record 40.54 Pounds In 2023 (2024)

National Milk Producers Federation: Driven by Cheese, Dairy Consumption Rises Again (2024)

Climate Policy: The animal agriculture industry’s obstruction of campaigns promoting individual climate action (2025)

Colorado Politics: Meatout Day Proclamation (2021)

CPR News: MeatOut, Or Meat In? Governor’s Declaration Ignites Carnivorous Culture War (2021)