The following report is by KNX News:
Butter lovers are singing the blues because Kerrygold Pure Irish Butter has gone missing from grocery shelves, but the reason may be more ominous than you’d expect.
The chemical PFAS, or per-and-polyfluorinated alkyl substances, was recently banned in the United States. It was found in the iconic Kerrygold gold and silver foil packaging, causing the product to be pulled from stores.
These chemicals, these are the Teflon. They’re stain repellent, but they don’t break down in the body and they don’t break down in the environment and they actually stick to our blood.
Warned David Andrews, a senior scientist with the Environmental Working Group.
Assembly bill 1200 went into effect January 1. It banned all food packaging containing PFAS, either intentionally added or present at levels exceeding 100 parts per million.
According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, PFAS exposure may lead to cancer, liver damage, decreased fertility and increased cholesterol.
Kerrygold has released a statement confirming that they are working on a packaging solution that will exclude PFAS.
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
So, you pull the butter off the shelves but not all the other junk that has the PFAS’s in them?
While I certainly do not want to be ingesting all these chemicals and plastics, the hypocrisy here is incredible. This is the government purposefully singling out Kerrygold. Kerrygold is mostly grass-fed and grass-finished butter and cheese, though is unfortunately pasteurized, but is still some of the best dairy that can be purchased at the store before getting the highest quality from independent farms.
It’s interesting because in October of last year The WP cited an article that discussed industry expert’s take on butter and that it was posed to be in short supply this Winter season. Now a large butter company is being removed from store shelves for a time being.
So now on top of egg shortages and inflation, you can now add butter to the list.
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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Poor Ireland who rejected the heritage Patrick brought to them, with Comba & Columba, & all the Antioch text-preserving missions dating back to Paul, Claudia & Pudens….turned to treachery via Rome’s dark & bloody occult manipulations, to fraticide. While those remaining forget the source of their prosperity & health, & give not God the glory, embracing the idolatrous humanist lies, reaping the consequences as surely as America in her own turn. Most of them know not what spirit they are of, & few repent in truth.
Can anyone tell me if the Costco brand “Kirkland” butter green wrapper is the same? I love origami, and use these wrappers. Thank you.