Understand!

Pennsboro. They had a farm in the valley and it was beautiful and peaceful. Sometimes I think the area around there might be a Gulch for me and mine.

My parents are both from WV, the only state formed against slavery. They were Charleston area. Where?

The best butter I ever had was the yummy stuff I skimmed from the top of the milk I got straight out of my Aunt's cow. I learned the hard way not to beat that cream too hard when it went from butter to chunks and liquid in a split second. I learned to make the best bread and the flakiest pastries and pies in her West Virginia kitchen. Margarine was never discussed there, but at home we couldn't always afford butter. Nine kids puts a damper on things like butter. For a long time we never knew which would show up on the table, depending on which was cheaper that week. The taste difference was very noticible and so was cooking with them. I will not buy margarine to this day.

Thanks, interesting, sounds like the no frills, hand pounded butter I used to have back in the day.
Tasted/smelled and looked different than say, land-o-lakes.

My research (not exhaustive), and discussion with Irish buddy I play soccer with, is that Irish standards for butter have higher milk fat and only from grass fed cows.

I can tell the difference, at least side-by-side. I use KerryGold. Definitely recommend it! I think it is "pier reviewed" by customs on the pier ;) Using "I" because I do 100% of the cooking in our house. Wife is an awesome athlete, but cooking, nope.

https://www.properhealthyliving.com/i...

Oh the Doc has lots of pier review, under the microscope stuff. (not to mention history)
I noticed a huge change when I stopped Milk/wheat/pork/tomato sauce but Butter somehow is a good thing.
So, what is it about Irish Butter, I might like to try it.

I read that "Eat Right for Your Blood Type" book. A highly religious buddy at work gave it to me. It seemed technically fallacious, and certainly doesn't match my body.

Butter is fine, but saying it is "good for you " is a stretch. Doubt there is a case where leaving it out, and eating other stuff is ever unhealthy, unless simply missing fundamental nutrients. .I ONLY use Irish butter for a butter function now. Even higher in milk fat, and really creamy!

Lucky me, lived near a farm and had Real Butter all my life, never tried fake butter.
But an interesting factoid is that REAL COW BUTTER is actually good for you, or a least people with O type blood, (eat right for your blood type), in moderation of course.
PS, . . Summer butter is sweet.

Our dogs keep coyotes and foxes away from our lot. YES! I can (and do) deer and squirrel hunt there. It is now town land, and our town is VERY firearm friendly for the People's Republic of MA! Out my front door and left. 50' to the woods.

With 100 acres of woods, you'll need some way to keep the foxes and possibly coyotes away from the hens. ;^) Can you hunt deer on the 100 acres?

Add Nevada to the list. Vegas has been under control of the old but continuing Harry Reid machine for years, now Reno is going down the tubes with the blue state exodus from over the hill. Corruption reigns!

Exactly the same! These are all enabled by government power, never Capitalism!

In the Fifties, there was a concerted effort to make us believe that vegetable oil was far better than lard.There were business powers trying to get rid of the Diesel lubricating oil that the Navy no longer needed after the war (Canadian Oil - Low Acid or CANOLA oil) by selling it as cooking oil.
In the early 1900's someone perfected a gin for processing hemp into high quality thread. This threatened the cotton industry, and they had the government outlaw hemp, using the unfamiliar Mexican name for it, Marijuana. Apparently a few blacks were smoking it for a cheap high, so they worked it up into a national health crisis that had to be dealt with at all cost. (Like the Wuhan Flu).
Businesses come up with these ideas and the government goes right along, if they can see a tax profit in it.

I meant to say: "You never hear MORE complaints for ..."

What an outstanding observation. +1 and more if I could.

Not a chance. Never CO. Never CA, NJ, VT, WA or OR. CO is a great state dominated by a cesspool in Denver and Golden. WA and OR have similarly been dragged to sepsis by their big city scum.
My wife has wanted chickens for a while, and we love farm eggs. We have two acres next to 100 acres of woods. Maybe time soon. I'm perfectly happy to butcher them too.

They are still both 100% fat, which goes directly to you waist, unless your body reaches an aerobic state to process it.
After that, we only buy butter, and then only Irish butter, because it tastes better.

Try living in Colorado where the goofy Gov placed into law you cannot sell eggs, if you can find them and can afford them, but they MUST be certified cage free. What left wing nut group all of a sudden think this should be law?

"Both are just fat." Wrong.
Butter is far better for you than some chemically contrived, hydrogenated fat substitute our bodies were never evolved to process.

You never hear complaints for more competition, and eliminating proprietary data than from government employees who have no competition!

Fear of competition leads to corruption.
That is the basis for the fedgov and all who are employed by it.