Norway Butter Crisis

According to Norwegian customs its illegal to import diary products into Norway thus rendering the butter smuggling illegal but highly profitable.

Norway butter crisis. Accessed on 20th March 2012. Autumn Scandinavian butter shortage still affects Norway with full force. Demand for butter has risen by 30 while Norwegian cows produced 20m fewer litres of milk this year compared with last year.

It involved the people of Norway the dairy farmers of Norway the government the media and the weather. Norway ran out of butter this month. A guy just got caught trying to smuggle.

But Europeans have said no thanks to help from Norway. A higher demand for butter as a result of low-carb diets and increased interest in natural home-cooked meals is one reason for the shortage according. Norway isnt a member of the EU In an emergency move the countrys agriculture ministry just temporarily cut the tariff way down.

Everyone blamed each other for the shortage. This time were taking on smørpanikk food politics and - for the second week running - brandyBONUS MATERIAL. The media made a huge fuss.

Today Norway is back in the news for its nationwide butter shortage a story so silly it was brought to Americas attention by the Colbert Report. Swedish newspapers wrote a lot of articles about this bizarre situation and selling butter to Norwegians became a rather common joke in Sweden during this time and the following year. Home Quirky The Never Ending Norwegian Butter Crisis.

Perhaps the first American college protest was over butter. During Christmas 2011 Norway was hit hard by a butter crisis. People were afraid of not having enough butter for baking christmas cookies and whatever else they might want to cook for the holidays so some took to hoarding only making things worse.