Kerrygold forever chemicals

(Richard M) #1

Now butter? What is next?

#2

While I don’t take stuff like this (too) serious when it’s out of crybaby states like CA and NY, interesting to say the least. I wonder if that was also the case 5+yrs ago when their foil packaging was very thick and never ripped before they went to the cheap crap they use now? If I remember right it was also Kerrygold that made a blend with Veggie oil and pissed everybody off, weird move for a place like that.

I switched to Finlandia a while ago simply because I buy multi-brick packs at wholesale, but theirs is like the stuff Kerrygold used to use.

(MC) #3

This came up in my health group today. They compared Kerrygold with Organic Valley Salted Butter, the latter showing 16ppm. What was interesting was the same recommendation; ketosis diet for metabolism to clean out all the chemicals that we inadvertently consume.

(Joey) #4

News to me! I was unaware that keto eating serves as a “cleansing” diet … one that would eliminate harmful chemicals we’ve consumed in the past.

Does your health group have resource materials to support this expectation? If so, I’d eager to read up.

#5

This is probably the case then, also for normal butters? My SO lovingly bought me KerryGold, when he was last out, as I had mentioned the need to acquire vitaminK2, from grassfed butter. Of course, it had to be too good to be true if we could fit it within our budget, and lo and behold, it is. But is anything perfect? Aldi received criticism for selling grassfed ground beef which turned out not 100% grassfed. As to forever chemicals, it’s probably in just about everything we store in our house and on our person. The air we breathe is also toxic. Is the solution to stop breathing? Perpetually wear a mask? In the end of the day we will never reach perfection, and for those of us on a budget, if we carefully examined (entering crazy land) every single thing in our lives, we’d probably discover we are bombarded by toxins, in every single breath, and touch.
I have begun to realise the biggest killer of health of all, is the desire to achieve optimal health. It doesn’t exist.

(Doug) #6

We certainly shouldn’t let ‘perfect’ be the enemy of good. Personally, I’m glad if they changed the packaging to remove harmful chemicals, but I also wonder exactly how much of them were in it. Was it truly enough to worry about?

While I don’t know the answer, there, I’m guessing the risk was slight, and likely vanishingly small compared to - for example - my monstrously carb-heavy diet some years back.

#7

very interesting. ok, mind chat on this one, lol… it is ‘not the butter product’ but the packaging it is wrapped in…hmm…so not a truth about the product being less than, but how the packaging effects maybe the product enclosed in it. I see no class action in a way unless one can show thru all testing and more the butter is totally contaminated thru the packaging??? not sure on it, only real science and fact will show that later maybe…but hmmm… I guess all my meat I buy from the reg. ol’ grocery or any other product ‘packaged’ to buy can now be suspect to that packaging? Testing of all products in a box, or foil, or plastic cup or wrapped in plastic on styrafoma containers and ‘wow all out there’ in products are now suspect? wow on the crazy law suits and more if this is the case…I think my thinking is right on this one but if someone sees a flaw in it, pony up some chat on it. So ALL packaged foods on the planet are now fair game depending on this class action in a way. Key being is the butter changed? testing can only show. Show me the testing and actual lab results saying the butter is bad then we got action to handle thru packaging…but still on fence on this one. Thru packaging products can be contaminated in full truth but is this one? will follow. find it intersting for sure. If butter effected in testing to bad levels of ‘those forever chems’ I see action moving forward. Just the packaging is ‘suspect’ but butter on testing shows ‘fine no chem leech etc’ then I see no movement forward on it…ok just chat on this one.

#8

Hi Doug, I think we can only do the best we can with the knowledge we have, and with what is within our budget. I personally believe exceeding the budget is more stressful than accepting there are certain limitations, as to how healthy any given product and food is, and make peace with that. It’s not just our WOE, it’s also getting fresh air, regular exercise, having kind-to-ourselves moments, making peace with our own bodies and learning to love ourselves, finding ways of stress reduction that works for us as individuals, and social interaction, precious time spent with friends/family. I would also add sunshine, but unfortunately I’m so ridiculously light sensitive I tend to shun it. But for most I would recommend that as well. But I would never say one WOE fits all, or one lifestyle fits all, it simply doesn’t, there are too many individual circumstances. My stance on it is that everyone is on his/her own unique journey, and that truth is subjective, science will perpetually go hand in hand with confirmation bias, we are, after all, only human.