Ilya wrote:
Of course milk is mostly water, so 586 pounds of milk does not
look like that much by comparison to 199 pounds of grains or
193 pounds of meat.
Caloric % would be far more usefull.

Dear Ilya,

How have you been?  I've missed you.  You ask GREAT questions.
I'll have to work on calories...anybody out there have a conversion
chart?  In 1995 here's what the average American ate.

FOOD        POUNDS EATEN        CONVERSION FACTOR
                                (How many lbs of milk=1 pound of___)

Butter          4.5                 21.2
Whole Milk     72.1                  1
2% Milk        69.1                  1
1% Milk        22.0                  1
Skim           33.7                  1
Flavored Milk  10.4                  1
Cream           8.7                  1
Cheese (Hard)  27.7                 10.0
Cottage Cheese  2.6                  4.0
Ice Cream      15.9                 12.0
Ice Milk        7.6                  6.0
Sherbet         1.3                  4.5
Other Frozen    4.8                  1
Condensed Milk  6.4                  2.1
Dry Whole Milk  0.4                  7.4
Nonfat Dry      3.8                 11.0
Dried Whey      3.5                  8.0

Multiply this all out and the actual milk necessary to produce what the
average American ate comes out to 932.05 pounds.

I'd love to know how many calories we're talking about.  Anyone up
to figuring out the numbers???

Robert Cohen