The Dairy Farmers Here Are Ruining Our Butter

Lee

Lee

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Chatham, Ontario
Is this happening just in Canada or do those of you in the USA and other parts of the world having the same problem? Here it is referred to as Buttergate.

The farmers in order to increase yields are adding palm oil to the feed which is resulting in butter that is rock hard even at room temperature. You can't spread it, not even on warm toast, it just chunks up. Any dietician will warn of the ills of palm oil. This has to be finding it's way from the feed to the end product.

I like my butter but went out yesterday and bought margarine.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calg...lm-oil-fat-supplements-in-spotlight-1.5927194
 

Lee said:
Is this happening just in Canada or do those of you in the USA and other parts of the world having the same problem? Here it is referred to as Buttergate.

The farmers in order to increase yields are adding palm oil to the feed which is resulting in butter that is rock hard even at room temperature. You can't spread it, not even on warm toast, it just chunks up. Any dietician will warn of the ills of palm oil. This has to be finding it's way from the feed to the end product.

I like my butter but went out yesterday and bought margarine.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calg...lm-oil-fat-supplements-in-spotlight-1.5927194
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Give this butter I try if you can find in in your area, Lee.

No added salt, no colouring. It's all I buy.

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Lee said:
Thanks Marg, but unfortunately when I looked it up I see it is not available in Ontario. Thinking of hiring a moving truck now
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I hate change, Lee, especially when it equates to the needless altering of products.

I grew up on margarine, so when I left home I went straight to real butter, because real butter was all that my grandparents ever used and I loved it.

As much as I hate to suggest that you look at purchasing butter through a specialty shop, that's what I would do in hopes of locating a suitable butter.

We buy old-fashioned milk in glass bottles from a local farm, and I'm thinking it would be well worth the effort for you to check into farms in and around your area that produce their own goods, because many I know still offer good old-fashioned products that have been produced the same way for generations.
 
I just this morning was reading that even Kerrygold butter now comes with seed oils in it, sold as a spreadable butter. It has canola oil (rapeseed oil) mixed with the butter.
We are all learning of the dangers of seeds oils now, and which ones are the worst ones. Canola oil is not the worst one, but it is probably the one which is most used in processed foods, so it is one of the seeds oils that we get the most of in our diets.

Seed oils have to be highly processed using heat and chemicals before they can be used for cooking with, unlike butter or even olive and coconut oil, which are both cold pressed oils. This is one of the things that health experts like Robert Kennedy and many doctors are speaking out against to warn Americans of the dangers of these seed oils.

Here is a chart, showing the LA in various oils.

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Happyflowerlady said:
I just this morning was reading that even Kerrygold butter now comes with seed oils in it, sold as a spreadable butter. It has canola oil (rapeseed oil) mixed with the butter.
We are all learning of the dangers of seeds oils now, and which ones are the worst ones. Canola oil is not the worst one, but it is probably the one which is most used in processed foods, so it is one of the seeds oils that we get the most of in our diets.

Seed oils have to be highly processed using heat and chemicals before they can be used for cooking with, unlike butter or even olive and coconut oil, which are both cold pressed oils. This is one of the things that health experts like Robert Kennedy and many doctors are speaking out against to warn Americans of the dangers of these seed oils.

Here is a chart, showing the LA in various oils.

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I can believe this. My Kerry Gold butter is the only butter I ever use. All the others taste terrible. Now I know why. I think I'll give up butter all together. :cry:
 
chic said:
I can believe this. My Kerry Gold butter is the only butter I ever use. All the others taste terrible. Now I know why. I think I'll give up butter all together. :cry:
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Not all butter has added seed oils, butter sticks are all butter, you just have to read labels and stay away from the spreadable ones.
Way back in the early 1950’s, Gayelord Hauser recommended his “Sun Butter”, which was pure olive oil whipped into softened butter. I believe that he irradiated his olive oil in the sun before he blended it, which is why he called it sun butter. This is quick and easy to make, and has all the health advantages of butter and pure EVOO.
By making your own, you can choose your favorite pure butter and olive oil, and still have a spreadable butter that is healthy.
 
Happyflowerlady said:
Not all butter has added seed oils, butter sticks are all butter, you just have to read labels and stay away from the spreadable ones.
Way back in the early 1950’s, Gayelord Hauser recommended his “Sun Butter”, which was pure olive oil whipped into softened butter. I believe that he irradiated his olive oil in the sun before he blended it, which is why he called it sun butter. This is quick and easy to make, and has all the health advantages of butter and pure EVOO.
By making your own, you can choose your favorite pure butter and olive oil, and still have a spreadable butter that is healthy.
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I've been using Kerry Gold sticks because they were delicious. But for the past month or so they have tasted awful. It's not what I am paying for. I don't have time or knowledge to make butter. Maybe someday. :giggle:
 
Happyflowerlady said:
I just this morning was reading that even Kerrygold butter now comes with seed oils in it, sold as a spreadable butter. It has canola oil (rapeseed oil) mixed with the butter.
We are all learning of the dangers of seeds oils now, and which ones are the worst ones. Canola oil is not the worst one, but it is probably the one which is most used in processed foods, so it is one of the seeds oils that we get the most of in our diets.

Seed oils have to be highly processed using heat and chemicals before they can be used for cooking with, unlike butter or even olive and coconut oil, which are both cold pressed oils. This is one of the things that health experts like Robert Kennedy and many doctors are speaking out against to warn Americans of the dangers of these seed oils.

Here is a chart, showing the LA in various oils.

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"Spreadable butter" is not butter just as that stuff labeled "sandwich spread" isn't mayonnaise. They contain some butter (or a mayo-equivalent) but unlike the real thing, they have lots of other ingredients..
 
chic said:
I've been using Kerry Gold sticks because they were delicious. But for the past month or so they have tasted awful. It's not what I am paying for. I don't have time or knowledge to make butter. Maybe someday. :giggle:
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My mom and gramma used to make butter. It looked like fun, but I was just a kid. We made ice-cream, too; way more fun.

But making butter isn't as time consuming if you use a shaker instead of the wooden paddles. You should use the paddles after you shake it, tho. Makes it nice and creamy.
 
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