It’s not the cholesterol that will kill you. It’s the hernia from trying to hold up both ends of the conversation with a perpetually aggrieved social justice warrior. I never associated Land O Lakes packaging with genocide, sex trafficking, or Native women as sex objects. Perhaps I’m clueless, but I’ve always associated butter with a baked potato, pancakes, croissants, scones, muffins, and once in awhile a pat of butter on a steak that was cooked on a wood pellet grill.

I’m not a total Neanderthal. I do wheel out my recycle bin containing my gifts to the recycling gods, placed just so on the altar of the curb on a weekly basis. I will admit that I’m having difficulty memorizing 50 or so new gender pronouns.

From the Washington Examiner:

Land O’Lakes is retiring the iconic Native American butter maiden that has appeared on its logo for the past 92 years.

The Minnesota-based company said it was phasing out Mia the butter maiden on its packaging as it “looks toward our 100th anniversary” and will soon replace her with farm owners “whose milk is used to produce Land O’Lakes products” instead.
“As a farmer-owned co-op, we strongly feel the need to better connect the men and women who grow our food with those who consume it,” Land O’Lakes President and CEO Beth Ford said in a February press release. “Our farmer-to-fork structure gives us a unique ability to bridge this divide.”

Some critics have labeled the old logo racist, including North Dakota state Rep. Ruth Buffalo, who said its image went “hand-in-hand with human and sex trafficking of our women and girls … by depicting Native women as sex objects.”

“Yes, it’s a good thing for the company to remove the image. It’s kinda like with land acknowledgments, it’s a good gesture and a step forward. But we can’t stop there. We as a whole need to keep pushing forward to address the underlying issues that directly impact an entire population that survived genocide,” Buffalo said.