The American Butter Institute and the National Milk Producers Federation have sent a letter to the Food and Drug Administration, and put out a press release calling on Country Crock-brand margarine to be prohibited from using the term "butter" on its label .
The label does say the margarine is "plant-based" or "dairy-free".
There was a time when the butter industry was so opposed to margarine that it demanded it not be colored to imitate butter in the Canadian market. And for decades there was a ban on blending butter and margarine so the blend would spread nicely from the refrigerator.
In today’s United States market, butter has made a come-back to 57 per cent of the masrket with margarine at 26 per cent and blends at 17 per cent.
