Posted on 12/15/2022 2:27:43 PM PST by DallasBiff
The processed food industry is struggling to come to grips with a more educated consumer. Gone are the days where government and mass-media could completely sway the buying habits of the American public as they did in the past. Today mainstream media is still largely financed by big industry, from pharmaceuticals to processed food to automobiles, and as Americans change their buying habits it is very likely mainstream media will also die a slow death.
It would be wrong to assume that the processed food industry will simply change and start producing healthy food, however. Instead, they will try to capitalize on the new trends in healthy eating, and attempt to become suppliers in this market space. It has been happening with organic products for years, as Big Food has lobbied to loosen USDA organic standards, while also buying up smaller companies to add to their processed food portfolio. Much of the organic food industry today is large-scale processed food.
It is no surprise that one of the world’s largest margarine producers has come out and admitted that they have been wrong about butter all along, and that it is indeed healthier than margarine. This is not a suddenly new found concern about the health of consumers, but a marketing reality as sales of margarine continue to plummet while sales of butter skyrocket. So don’t expect them to start offering healthy whole foods anytime soon. Their solution is simply to add some of the “real” stuff into the fake stuff. And that real butter will more than likely come from milk produced in large CAFOs (confined animal feeding operations)
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They will never learn.
I’ve gone one better, and use pigs lard
Eat real food. It’s easy.
Butter - the Kerrygold and Tillamook are both fantastic brands.
I am old enough to have learned that it is all cyclic (on the wheel)
Unfortunately like most food products in the era of Brandon, becoming nearly unaffordable.
Besides, butter simply tastes better when you add it to food or cook with it.
What could be better than a homemade biscuit with butter on top.
Bacon grease. My mother would throw it in tge garbage when I was a kid. She would be aghast now to see mecooking with it.
Butter seems almost immune to inflation, in my market. Margarine does not.
Butter is gluten free.
*the garbage
*me cooking
(Dang phone!)
Pig lard is certainly the bomb, but I’ve seen the two used in different ways, I’ve eaten many homemade biscuits made with lard, but I’ve never put a dab of lard on top of it or added a little lard to my baked potato.
“ What could be better than a homemade biscuit with butter on top.”
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Simply having a plain piece of toast spread with good butter from grass fed cows is wonderful. Yummy.
Now can Land o’ Lakes return the indian maiden? Or are they too woke?
Childhood bliss was twisting an Oreo, to separate the halves, and add a slab of butter to the creme, reassemble said cookie, and enjoy!
Everything tastes better with butter….Julia Child
I like to fry my eggs in butter, yummm
The Indian girl din’t win.
Don’t mess with my butter......that’s a no-no....
The package just doesn’t look right without the Indian Maiden
“I am old enough to have learned ...
I am old enough to remember when margarine was first introduced, and it is naturally white, and the butter people wouldn’t allow it to be dyed yellow when sold, so the margarine people put the margarine in clear bags with a capsule of dye included. The buyer would massage the bag until the dye was evenly distributed.
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