390
Costco forced to recall 80,000 lbs of butter – because the label fails to mention it contains milk
(www.independent.co.uk)
this post was submitted on 11 Nov 2024
390 points (97.8% liked)
Offbeat
1265 readers
29 users here now
The world is a weird place filled with even weirder news.
Post your funny, weird, strange, or quirky news stories here!
Lemmy.ca Rules
- No bigotry - including racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, or xenophobia.
- Be respectful. Everyone should feel welcome here.
- No porn.
- No Ads / Spamming.
Community Rules
- No editorialized titles
- No satire news sites (The Beaverton, The Onion, etc...)
- No politics
- Submissions must be no older than 2 months (i.e. the article should be "recent" news)
Similar Communities
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
While I get that this is a legal thing…
It also really shows how divorced from where our food comes from people are. Also, how many products that could be called “butter” that are completely artificial and have no dairy content at all.
In the eu terms like butter and dairy can only be used for milk products.
But our legaslative pendulum did swing a bit too far in the other direction (imo): terms like soja-butter and so on were also banned.
Akshually it's soy margarine