Hard butter, hard questions

Canadian dairy farmers are under fire for feeding palm oil to their cows in order to produce more butter, which is in hot demand for home baking during this pandemic. However, it’s made the butter harder at room temperature, and lit another firestorm of controversy about public trust in the food system. The so-called ‘Buttergate’ controversy in Canada has caused serious headaches for dairy farmers there, but they hope the actions they are taking now will put it behind them for good. It is