Butter And Whole Milk Sales Are Booming

From Bloomberg Opinion, "Butter Is Booming, Whole Milk Is Back and Dairy Is Surviving: Dietary trends come and go, but for four decades this industry has been finding ways to keep consumption growing." by Justin Fox:

Nationwide, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, butter production is up 6% over the first nine months of the year and is on track to top two billion pounds for the first time since 1943.

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Even within milk sales there’s been an interesting shift lately, with whole milk outselling 2% milk for the first time in 15 years in 2018 and building on its lead in 2019, and skim milk sales drifting downward. If you’re going to drink milk, and not smashed-up almonds mixed with water, then you might as well drink the milkiest kind of milk.