Good Better Butter.

It's all in the fine print of course.

My musings yesterday about having a cow ( no, not a hissy-fit but a real one ) has taken a few interesting turns. Bob is still so against it as he secretly does fear that I might embarrass him by taking our cow for a walk...As if?

By the way, researching into the inns and outs of keeping a little darling, I stumbled across a Lady in Wyoming- The Daily Coyote who keeps several cows. Well a bull, a cow and a ( sorry guys ) neutered bull. She says they are the best pets out. Intelligent and loyal. Anyway, who knows what the future holds...

One of the bonuses of having livestock is that they produce food. Milk in the case of a cow. Milk makes butter, cheese and joghurt. Nice.

Depending on how it is made, a pound of butter takes a lot of milk to produce. But somehow the price doesn't reflect it. Butter starting at 1,30 euros at the discounters. Ah, there's the rub. Do we know where the cheap butter comes from and how it is made?

When the budget is tight, those questions are better left unanswered. But if there isn't a problem in that department, it might be worth our while to dig a bit deeper into our wallet and buy organic butter. Yes, I hear you smirking lot...

" Do you really believe they put organic milk into it? How would you know? "

We all know the rule of what you put in, you get out...in the case of butter, if non-organic milk is used, we indirectly get the benefit of the various foods that the cow ate. Did the cow eat luscious grass on the fields or chemically enhanced feed? Did the cow get hormones to grow faster and produce more milk? How about antibiotics while we're at it?

All of us are inundated with gazillions of chemicals in our food, in our air and in our clothes. I don't know about you, but I feel that even one less chemical my body has to deal with, is a win. Easing the burden, so to say.

Maybe when it says organic on the label, it isn't so, but I'd rather chance it...let's not forget how much better organic tastes!

Biggi