Global News published this video item, entitled “#Buttergate: Uproar over hard butter churns across Canada” – below is their description.
Canadians have been spreading reports of their store-bought butter being firmer than usual.
Ross Lord explains what’s fuelling “buttergate” and how farmers aren’t laughing.
An agri-food analyst at Dalhousie University is churning up questions about the hardness of Canadian butter. Sylvain Charlebois believes some farm practices are raising ethical questions about the purity of this country’s dairy products.
Charlebois, the senior director of the agri-food analytics lab at the university, said butter smells and acts differently, and it seems harder than usual.
Canada is a country in the northern part of North America. It extends from the Atlantic to the Pacific and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering 9.98 million square kilometres (3.85 million square miles), making it the world’s second-largest country by total area.
Its southern and western border with the United States, stretching 8,891 kilometres (5,525 mi), is the world’s longest bi-national land border. Canada’s capital is Ottawa, and its three largest metropolitan areas are Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver.
Various Indigenous peoples inhabited what is now Canada for thousands of years before European colonization. The Canada Act 1982, which severed the vestiges of legal dependence on the British Parliament. Canada is a parliamentary democracy and a constitutional monarchy in the Westminster tradition, with a monarch and a prime minister who serves as the chair of the Cabinet and head of government.
As a highly developed country, Canada has the seventeenth-highest nominal per-capita income globally as well as the thirteenth-highest ranking in the Human Development Index. Its advanced economy is the tenth-largest in the world, relying chiefly upon its abundant natural resources and well-developed international trade networks.
1 thought on “#Buttergate: Uproar over hard butter churns across Canada”
Regarding butter quality
I have been cooking for 60 + years. “Everything is better with butter”
I love butter for many reasons.
A couple of years ago I realized butter was different. I thought producers were trying to make butter and at the same time lower cost of production. The butter seems to have a higher water? content. It does take a longer time to melt. At this time, I still haven’t learned how much time it takes to soften or melt butter
Why when Canadian butter has been an amazing food are the producers changing the way butter is made?
I just want butter to be the product it used to be.
Regarding butter quality
I have been cooking for 60 + years. “Everything is better with butter”
I love butter for many reasons.
A couple of years ago I realized butter was different. I thought producers were trying to make butter and at the same time lower cost of production. The butter seems to have a higher water? content. It does take a longer time to melt. At this time, I still haven’t learned how much time it takes to soften or melt butter
Why when Canadian butter has been an amazing food are the producers changing the way butter is made?
I just want butter to be the product it used to be.