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Cue the Margarine Wars, a conflict that was waged in the courts, in the legislature and on the streets, between ‘wholesome’ butter and ‘unnatural’ margarine. Behold, two early salvos during the...
- Butter just may have come to us straight from the ancestors of Genghis Khan.
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Eurasian nomads, the story goes, carried mare’s milk in skin bags on long journeys—and repeated sloshing on horseback churned the liquid into the first butter. Opposing legend says that the Arabs made it first, on loping camels.
However it evolved, butter has been with us for at least 4000 years. Our word butter comes from the ancient Greek–a combo of bous (cow) and turos (cheese)–still appropriate today, since the bulk of modern American butter comes from cows.
Butter, from its ancient inception, had nothing much in the way of competition until 1869. In that year French chemist Hippolyte Mège-Mouriès–spurred on by a hefty financial prize offered by Emperor Louis Napoleon III–patented a lower priced spread made from beef tallow. He dubbed it oleomargarine–from the Latin oleum, meaning beef fat, and the Greek margarite, meaning pearl, this last for its presumably pearlescent luster. The Emperor was hoping that a cheaper butter alternative would benefit the lower classes and the military, neither of which seems to have appreciated it much. Mège-Mouriès sold his patent to Jurgens, a Dutch butter-making company, which eventually became part of Unilever, still one of the world’s major producers of margarine. He never profited from his discovery, and died (poor) in 1880. He must have found it infuriating that he lived long enough to see his margarine attaining international fame.
Margarine arrived in the United States in the 1870s, to the approbation of the broke, and to the universal horror of American dairy farmers. Within the next decade there were 37 companies in the United States enthusiastically manufacturing margarine; and “margarine” and “butter” had become fighting words. In 1886, passionate lobbying from dairy industry led to the federal Margarine Act, which slapped a restrictive tax on margarine and demanded that margarine manufacturers pay prohibitive licensing fees. Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Ohio went a step further and banned margarine outright.
Margarine, its foes proclaimed, threatened the family farm, the American way of life, and the moral order. Impassioned speeches were made in defense of “sweet and wholesome” butter. Governor Lucius Hubbard of Minnesota bemoaned the fact that “the ingenuity of depraved human genius has culminated in the production of oleomargarine and its kindred abominations.” Senator Joseph Quarles of Wisconsin (the Dairy State) thundered that butter should come from the dairy, not the slaughterhouse. “I want butter that has the natural aroma of life and health. I decline to accept as a substitute caul fat, matured under the chill of death, blended with vegetable oils and flavored by chemical tricks.”
Pro-butter political cartoonists pictured factories dropping everything from stray cats to soap, paint, arsenic, and rubber boots into the margarine mix; and a barrage of dubious scientific reports hinted that margarine caused cancer, or possibly led to insanity.
•Strey, Gerry. “The Oleo Wars: Wisconsin’s Fight over the Demon Spread.” Wisconsin Magazine of History, Autumn 2001.
•Young, Adam. “The War on Margarine.” Foundation for Economic Education, June 2002.
Oct 15, 2023 · The story of margarine dates back to the mid-1800s in France and includes an interesting tale of Canadian interprovincial trade. Food shortages, especially for edible fats, stimulated a...
Mar 29, 2012 · Margarine Wars. 60's Psychedelic Counterculture clash during the "Summer of Love," when an aspiring hippie Afro-Jew from New York dupes the son of a Swedish dairy farmer into smuggling illegal margarine into butter rich Wisconsin.
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Jan 15, 2020 · The margarine wars, of course, were only one part of a larger story of the government’s struggle to regulate food. The government’s most important tool in this fight was the so-called...
Minnesota bans margarine. A French chemist invented oleomargarine, a mix of animal fat and vegetable oil, to cheaply feed the armies of Napoleon III in the 1860s.
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