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Good time of day, humans!
We don’t always spread chaos and destruction. Sometimes we become extremely interested in promoting order.
ICYMI, a huge pile of butter was just recalled because its packaging failed to state something obvious, namely, that butter is made from milk:
[NY Post] Costco forced to recall 80,000 pounds of butter for the dumbest possible reason
Possibly the funniest comment on this on Xitter:
On a more serious note, this isn’t quite the harmless idiocy it seems to be. Forcing «this butter contains milk» labels normalizes the idea there might exists other sorts of butter that don’t; and that certainly isn’t harmless idea.
I've tracked the story to FDA: https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/ires/index.cfm?Product=210580
From what I understand, the recall was initiated voluntarily by the supplier, which makes it even more bizarre.
Perhaps forcing real butter to have "contains milk" warning labels will somehow complete a Streisand effect of making some otherwise ignorant masses more interested in what's in their "butter." Don't try this at home folks!