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" Well, we always knew that drinking was a big deal, but now we have some harder numbers to prove it. Market Watch reported yesterday that wine and distilled spirits consumed by Americans have gone up by 21 percent and 20 percent, respectively, in the last decade. We&amp;#039;re fairly certain that glamorized drinking in Sideways, Sex and the City, and Mad Men probably helped the boozing industry pick up the pace, and we aren&amp;#039;t complaining. Beer, however, is down 10 percent, though craft beers are growing in popularity. In other beverage news, the dairy cliff wasn&amp;#039;t just a hyped-up moment during the larger Fiscal Cliff drama. Overall, milk consumption has dropped 6 percent, with Americans drinking 30 percent less of it than we did in 1975. [Market Watch] "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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