Saturated fats and the case for going natural
cheemiss8-7
Yes, we do need to push PM Harper to smash the management dairy cartels as he did with the wheat boards.
France has great grass fed butter. Wouldn't it be great if we could buy it at a reasonable price.
Deb
Then you'll get to fill your body with the hormone laden USA products and you can bet that within a year the price will be no cheaper. Think madcow, beef prices paid to farmers and the price you bought that meat for at the grocery store.
johnFR555
Please save me from the dangers of freedom to choose!
cedarius Davis
Canada had more cases of Mad Cow than the USA...
Deb
More cases or better reporting? I think the Americans are better at the 3 S's. However perhaps you share the link that states that Canada has more cases of Mad Cow. Also my point was to not believe for a minute that the demise of supply management will result in lower dairy prices. Given the fact that there are 3 companies that own 95% of the grocery stores why would the prices go down? In the States milk is used a lot as a lost leader.
LeDa88
The key words in your comment regarding cartels is "supply management". I would suggest if you tamper with supply management you will have supply issues (i.e. shortages/high prices) and management issues (fixing it). Be careful what you wish for.
primenumbers
Other countries manage lower prices to consumers without running out of supplies, and Canada can too.
David Reilly
Move on - nothing to see. We know all this low fat crap is useless. margarine was created to fatten turkeys and when it killed them the good food industry - never one to waste, waste - passed it on to us. Those healthy spreads are about as good for you as rendered animal parts in a McDonalds. Stop eating processed food people and remember what your Granny said, everything in moderation, plus if you see the food was produced from China - run a Peking Duck mile!
primenumbers
Yes, we know "low fat" is nonsense, but because of it vast numbers of us have received bad diet advice, food full of sugar and starch is heavily promoted as "healthy" and people are fatter and sicker than ever.
LeDa88
People are overeating because they eat a poor diet loaded with carbs that don't satisfy, but taste good.
jpwg
"Stop eating processed food people" - so are you saying we should instead eat people who aren't processed? I don't know - it still seems pretty cannibalistic to me.
Beibs
Funny :)
Paul S
Baloney. Margarine was specifically developed as a replacement for butter. Made of all natural ingredients, margarine is definitely healthier then butter (though not as flavourful).
johnFR555
It does not matter what it was developed for, it doesn't matter how natural the ingredients in margarine are. Margarine provides an overload of Omega-6 oils, which are rancid from processing. Butter has vitamins A, D, E, and K, and selenium.
LeDa88
I'll take butter. John is correct, oils in margarine are rancid.
Eupraxsopher
Fantastic article. Thank you.
LeDa88
This has nothing to do with aids.
Most manufactured foods are bad for us.
mcp74
We switched completely to butter about 18 months ago. We buy it in NY for about 1/3 the cost of buying it at Loblaw's or Wal-Mart.
Beibs
I have never used margarine. Always butter. I thought, if I have to work all my life, I am sure as heck not eating manufactured crap i want my butter. And I use gobs of it. Funny how they are now finding out, that the manufactured crap they sell us is bad for us. I never could understand... why change a good thing. Mmmmmmm butter is better. You will die, when you die.
Paul S
Butter is manufactured just like margarine, both of which are composed of 100% natural ingredients.
X30X
And for the baking of pastry, lard is the way to go.
primenumbers
Lard is great for frying too - high temperature stable and great flavour.
David G Anderson
"Dietary fat, whether saturated or not, is not a cause of obesity, heart disease, or any other chronic disease of civilization." -- Gary Taubes in Good Calories, Bad Calories (2007)
Paul S
Taubes is a flake in regards to health matters. I'll continue to trust my doctor, thank you, and not such nutter.
primenumbers
Taubes backs his words through heavily referenced scientific papers on the subject. Your trust in your doctor is mis-placed.
johnFR555
Your doctor is giving you decades-old advice based on flawed studies.
LeDa88
Most doctors only have time to write another prescription.
manhatten
Just rember to eat and drink in moderation all the things that are in the store and you will be fine.Also read all this stuff in moderation as well.
ntt1
concentrate your buying around the perimeter of the store, the centre aisles tend to be junk havens.
dogbite186
Ontario milk products supply distribution program is a central planning scheme that pays farmers extremely well, but destroys consumer choices. Grass-fed based butter is probably being produced but simply is not recognized as unique by the Ontario bureaucracy. Accordingly it will not be singled out until the supply control commission is abolished. Check out the story behind Chioboni Yougurt's attempt to come to Canada. Absolutely destroyed by a commission fraught with pay-offs and turf battles.
sunbias
I wouldn't worry about getting grass fed. Most dairies I've seen put the cows out to pasture after milking and in the winter they get hay (dried grass/legumes). I'm pretty sure the east uses feedlots for beef more than the west as just about all the cattle here in B.C. is range fed on crown land or munching away on a gazillion acre farm in the summer so I'd try and get western beef although they are finished on grain for a few months before slaughter.
Paul S
Quit being so cheap.
NorthernVigor
As a organic farmer and a dad... I'd say buy the cheapest butter in the dairy case to feed your family. It will still be better for them, than margarine...Or, better yet... get a cow.
johnFR555
Glad to see balanced coverage of this issue that acknowledges the ongoing debate, as compared to other media outlets that repeat the same outdated mushy platitudes
johnFR555
Dogma would be the right word.
Jamesxxvi
Chiropractors know as much about diet as they do about medicine, nothing.
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