A propensity to protect : butter, margarine and the rise of urban culture in Canada / W.H. Heick.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Heick, W. H.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Margarine industry--Canada--History.

Margarine industry.

Margarine industry--Government policy--Canada.

Butter trade--Canada--History.

Butter trade.

Butter trade--Government policy--Canada.

Consumers--Canada--Attitudes.

Consumers.

Urbanization--Canada--History.

Urbanization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (240 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, c1991.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

For Canada the last century was one of great social and economic change: an increasingly urban population witnessed shifts from an agricultural to a mixed economy and from moderate to greater wealth. Heick chronicles how changing attitudes toward butter and margarine reflected the nature of that society. He demonstrates how the ban on the manufacture, importation, and sale of margarine was instigated in 1986 at the behest of the nascent, yet influential diary industry, particularly in Ontario. This ban was based on the premise that margarine was not a pure food. Despite the lifting of the

Contents:

CONTENTS; TABLES AND GRAPHS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; PART ONE The Kingdom of the Cow: The Life of the Ban; PART TWO The End of the Ban; PART THREE Margarine Prevails: 1950-87; CONCLUSION; APPENDICES; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 204-219) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780889207813

088920781X

OCLC:

144144988