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Margarine became a source of political controversy in the U.S. soon after its arrival in the 1870s. The spread had been invented in France in 1869 by a chemist who had been encouraged by the Emperor Louis Napoleon III to create a cheap alternative to butter, but American dairy farmers did not welcome the competition. ... Read more The post The Politics of Butter vs. Margarine appeared first on LIFE .
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