Snopes Fact-Checked Missouri Cheese Caves So I Fact-Checked Them

When someone decides they're going to fact-check you, how do you know if they themselves have their facts straight? I asked the same question today as I learned Snopes just fact-checked Missouri's infamous underground cheese caves, so I've decided to return the favor and fact-check them. Touché.

This was just published today by Snopes. They ask "US Government Has 1.4B Pounds of Cheese Stockpiled in Missouri Caves?". Well, duh I say. Of course, Missouri has underground cheese caves, silly. What else would we put in the caves if not for cheese? Take a look, geniuses.

What did Snopes decide about Missouri's cheese caves? They categorize it as "mostly true" which is astonishing. So what's not true about Missouri's cheese caves? To paraphrase, they seem to have disdain for the idea that only Missouri has cheese caves and not the rest of America. They also somehow think that because private companies (like Kraft) own much of the space that it makes Missouri's cheese cave claim not 100% accurate. SMH

Let's turn the tables on Snopes and fact-check them...

I found a paper by the Harvard Kennedy School that shows how sometimes even the fact-checkers don't agree with each other. While most of the fact-check sites seem to come to similar conclusions most of the time, no one and no publication is perfect. I think the categorization of Missouri's cheese caves as "mostly true" is actually funny since virtually everyone in Missouri knows for a fact that there is massive cheese amounts in the Springfield storage caves.

I think it would also be fair for anyone who uses them as a source for truth to do some research into the Snopes plagiarism controversy they faced back in 2021 that's well documented by Wikipedia.

I am not an anti-Snopes person and use their site to fact-check some things I research for my own content, but at the same time I always ask if the sources I'm using have agendas and that includes the fact-checkers themselves.