Cows' food blamed for hard to spread butter in Canada

Published: Feb. 24, 2021, 7:51 p.m.

Canadians have been arguing for weeks their blocks of butter are harder to spread than usual. In what's being called "buttergate" many are complaining their butter does not soften at room temperature. Now food experts have weighed in saying churned up palm fat in cow feed is a likely culprit. Reporter Laura McQuillan spoke to Susie Ferguson.