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colanderman on Oct 29, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: The lactose-tolerance mutation

> I know here in Canada for decades margarine had to be smuggled into the country

Sounds like anticompetitive political corruption by the dairy industry; I can't imagine how that protects consumers.

Do you also have a problem with ground peanut spread being called "peanut butter"?

dhughes on Oct 30, 2012 [–]

I don't think it was anticompetitive reasons although the end result was that I believe it was farmers created a market for butter that margarine would benefit from.

As for PB I'm not a dairy farmer.

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