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Business Standard
7 days ago
- Business
- Business Standard
Butter's 47% global price surge finds explanation in a cult novel
The world is losing its mind about butter. In New Zealand, which accounts for nearly half of the world's butter exports, prices rose 46.5 per cent in the year through June, to NZ$8.60 ($5.10) for a 500-gram (1.1-pound) block. This has assumed the scale of a national crisis. The country's Prime Minister Christopher Luxon clashed with a reporter at a press conference last month when asked the current cost. Miles Hurrell, chief executive officer of Fonterra Co-operative Group Ltd., New Zealand's biggest company by revenue and owner of the Anchor dairy brand, faced criticism after defending the prices as good news for the country. It's not the only place where lovers of dairy fat are feeling the pinch. French newspaper Les Echos speculated last month that supply shortfalls may lead to butter shortages by Christmas. Prices in the UK are their highest in at least 12 years, at £4.86 ($6.45) for 500 grams. Restaurants in London are substituting olive oil, which has been falling from last year's record levels. The Food and Agriculture Organization's butter price index in June hit its highest level since it started in 1990. What's going on? A Japanese novel first published eight years ago may provide some clues. Butter, by Asako Yuzuki, has become a cult bestseller in English-language markets after a translation was published in 2024. It's an intoxicating mix, combining cooking and murder with a feminist meditation on anomie and body image in modern Japan — think Silence of the Lambs crossed with Julie & Julia and Audition. Throughout the novel, butter is used as a synecdoche for all the sensory pleasures that the goal- and diet-obsessed protagonists are denying themselves: food, sex, and a life free of pervasive, unshakeable guilt. Manako Kajii, the transgressive, charismatic, overweight serial killer at the heart of the story, inveigles the main character Rika into her world by exhorting her to never eat margarine again, and instead consume a dish of rice with soy sauce and butter. It is portrayed as the ultimate comfort food: 'When the world is this unfair and unfriendly, people want to do the things that give them satisfaction, that fortify and protect them,' Rika muses at one point, after cooking a French-style meal at a high-class cooking school. That feels like a message well-suited to the world of 2025. If you're inclined to the MAGA view of life, eating your red meat drenched in Café de Paris butter might feel like a protest against soyboy vegans pushing oat milk and guilt-tripping you about 2.1 billion tonnes of greenhouse-gas emissions from the dairy industry. If you're on the opposite end of the partisan spectrum, the self-care involved in watching the Great British Bake-Off or whipping up a batch of cookies might be another sort of political act. There's another crucial factor in Yuzuki's novel, though. Traditional Japanese food is almost never eaten. That's in keeping with the other thing driving global butter prices: The vogue for European cooking, and in particular butter-heavy baked goods, for the growing middle class in Asia and the Middle East. If you exclude the value of trade between members of the European Union, China is now the world's biggest importer of butter. Saudi Arabia imports more than the UK, while Indonesia, the United Arab Emirates, South Korea and Mexico aren't far behind. Imports to China this year will rise 11 per cent from 2024, according to the US Department of Agriculture, thanks to rising consumption of baked goods. This wouldn't be a surprise to anyone who's spent much time on social media lately. Asian cake chains like China's Holiland and South Korea's Butterful & Creamorous are mainstays of Instagram, TikTok, Pinterest and Xiaohongshu. At the World Pastry Cup, a biennial event held in Lyon, Japanese teams have won both of the two most recent contests, with Malaysia coming third this year. The delights of high-quality dairy are hard to deny. We've come a long way from the ascetic 1990s, when Anthony Bourdain launched his career as a bold contrarian with a New Yorker article arguing, shockingly, that this 'much maligned food' tastes great. Still, there's something a little melancholic about our current love affair with the stuff. Suzuki's Rika at one point visits Château Restaurant Joël Robuchon, a Tokyo outpost of the late French chef who made mashed potatoes seem opulent by adding unfeasible quantities of butter. She eats alone, because in her atomized life there's no one — not her boyfriend, best friend, or mother — who she'd want to go with. Her fellow diners are graying salarymen on transactional dates with younger women. She's left with a bout of indigestion. That feels a fitting metaphor for our current state of affairs. We live on a planet racked by war and famine, where trade and growth are slowing, work is unrelenting, social ties are fraying, and temperatures are rising. Even at current prices, a taste of butter — like a visit to Joël Robuchon — is a glimpse into a world of luxury that's feeling increasingly out of reach. These days, we'll take whatever comfort we can get.
The Spinoff
28-07-2025
- Business
- The Spinoff
Butter prices are just a symptom of everything being completely rooted
Butter is the latest in a long line of individual products to be scapegoated for our crushing and ongoing cost of living reality, which shows no sign of abating. Miles Hurrell may have mentally cursed Nicola Willis for believing in him as he sweated through a barrage of media questions last Thursday. The finance minister had told the Fonterra chief executive he'd be great at this, emerging from their meeting two days prior with nothing but praise for his efforts to explain the price of butter. He was 'so good at communicating about this that I've encouraged him that he should provide that information directly to New Zealanders', she'd said. 'And I've been assured that that is something that he will be doing later this week.' Later that week had arrived, and things weren't going as well as expected. 'Do you actually understand what it's like for consumers to go to the supermarket and face these prices?' asked a reporter, her voice betraying an unmistakable hint of being extremely pissed off. 'Absolutely, I was in the supermarket last night,' hazarded Hurrell. Unfortunately, he'd omitted a small detail which may have undercut his attempt at relatability. 'What do you get paid?' the reporter asked. The answer, as it turns out, is nearly $6 million per annum, or enough to buy about 600,000 blocks of Anchor butter. The reaction to the interview wasn't universally positive. Analysts asked whether the dairy cooperative has lost its social licence. Social media users called for boycotts. On the one hand, fair enough. It feels like yesterday farmers were driving their tractors down Queen Street, complaining that climate regulations had made it impossible for them to do business. They won, with the incoming coalition government extending agriculture's exemption from the Emissions Trading Scheme. Now, after securing their own bespoke financial arrangement, they're saying they can't create another one for us sadsacks weeping in the Woolworths aisle. On the other hand, butter is only the latest disgusting boil on a massive pus-bleached body of unaffordability. When he wasn't uttering hexes on the finance minister, Hurrell's mind likely turned to Leviticus 16:21, where the high priest Aaron was commanded to place both his hands on the head of a live goat, and confess over it all the inequities of his people. The scapegoat would then be set free in the wilderness as a wandering representative for the sins of the nation. Butter is our current scapegoat. Before it came along, we had domestic airfares. Before that, fuel prices. Before that, flat whites. For one weird moment in late 2024, we had a collective freakout over the price of bean products. Before that, we had rates. Before that, avocados. All these products serve as a temporary focal point for the broader sense that everything's completely rooted. Butter is guilty of being too brazen about filching from our back pockets, with its roughly 50% price rise year on year, but most household staples are getting way out of hand. Buying enough mince for burgers costs an hour's work on the minimum wage. Cheese toasties are in 'sell your kidney' territory. Most significantly, sour coke lollies are now upwards of $2 a bag. Unless you're earning $6 million as the chief executive of Fonterra, it hurts paying for the basics. Something's got to give. The cost of living crisis has become the cost of living reality, and outside of urban upzoning and some positive noises about increasing supermarket competition, few politicians are proposing changes that could meaningfully alter the problems at the heart of our economic funk. If we want to leave a New World without feeling like we've just been mugged, we need higher wages and fairer tax settings. Instead we'll get rotating media freakouts about individual price spikes. This week a goat has been sent out into the desert, lathered in a 500g block of Anchor salted butter. But even as the castigation subsides, the underlying curse remains. A new representative for our collective failings will have to be selected soon. Have you seen the price of a block of Whittaker's Hazella lately? It's absolutely outrageous.
RNZ News
28-07-2025
- Business
- RNZ News
High butter prices are actually a good thing for New Zealand, economists say
File photo. Photo: Margaret Jaszowska for Unsplash Butter prices might be biting at the supermarket checkout, but there's a warning that anyone hoping they'll fall should be careful what they wish for. The price of butter has increased about 50 percent over the past year, pushed up by high global dairy prices. But economists say that's actually a good thing for New Zealand. Household Economic Survey data shows that in 2023, households spent about $124 million on butter. Between 15 percent and 30 percent of households would buy butter over a one- or two-week period. But the country exported $5.2 billion worth. "It's not nearly worth trying to change the domestic butter game at the expense of our very lucrative export potential," Brad Olsen, chief executive at Infometrics said. "Being in China at the moment, I've been looking around here ... we are still charging more in our premium export markets than we are seeing domestically. "I mean in New Zealand, butter is $8.50 to $11 depending on who you're talking to or what shop you're going to. I've found an Anchor block in China that was only 454 grams for about $13.52. So the export stuff works for us." India is also a large producer of butter and has comparatively low prices, but Olsen said that was not comparable because farmers there were getting a subsidy of up to a third. In Australia, there was no GST on fresh food. Butter is about 7 percent of total New Zealand exports. "So yes, consumers get hit with higher butter prices in New Zealand," Olsen said. "But we make a lot more as a country from the exports that we send out overseas. And I guess you know, cause there's all this talk of, well, what happens if butter prices were lower ... I do think that there is this conception that if magically butter prices were lower, everything else would be the same too. "And that's just a complete false economy. If you had persistently lower butter prices, then there wouldn't be quite as many people farming. Or they wouldn't be the same profits from manufacturing and similar from Fonterra and what have you. That would mean there would be less money going into the economy across the country, people would have fewer jobs than they would at the moment. And so you might be paying cheaper, better prices. But you might not have a job. "That's the trade off that, that to a degree we're talking about ... I also think we talk a lot about butter. How much butter does every household in New Zealand consume? Like how many blocks are you guys buying?" Westpac chief economist Kelly Eckhold said it was good for the country overall that dairy prices were high. "Exports of cheese is $3 billion. All these dairy products are rising for the same underlying reason - demand for milk fats is increasing. Butter and cheese in particular are the things the world wants." He said the conversation was influenced by the fact that everyone encountered the retail price but not everyone was exposed to the export earnings. "One thing to think about is the gains from the income are more narrowly shared than the costs that come to all of us. We all go to the supermarket and buy a bit of butter and cheese and milk. "But if I look at employment trends on a regional basis, you can see in the last few months the regions where jobs are growing are Canterbury, Otago, Southland, West Coast, Marlborough ... these are areas that have a much higher agricultural and dairy input. There are more jobs in those parts of the country whereas Wellington and Auckland are very weak. There aren't many dairy farms in Remuera unfortunately." He said a wider problem was not that dairy products' price was rising but that New Zealand incomes were not keeping up. "Prices are being bid up by people overseas who are wealthier than us and their incomes are growing more strongly. "That's why they can afford to pay the prices that are pushing the prices up. The question isn't should we be redistributing further the profits form those sector. The question should be what can we do to improve the incomes of Kiwis so when demand goes up overseas we can keep pace. If we can do something that gets job growth up that's unequivocally better than putting price controls on butter or cheese." Sign up for Ngā Pitopito Kōrero , a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.
RNZ News
28-07-2025
- Business
- RNZ News
High butter prices is actually a good thing for New Zealand, economists say
File photo. Photo: Margaret Jaszowska for Unsplash Butter prices might be biting at the supermarket checkout, but there's a warning that anyone hoping they'll fall should be careful what they wish for. The price of butter has increased about 50 percent over the past year, pushed up by high global dairy prices. But economists say that's actually a good thing for New Zealand. Household Economic Survey data shows that in 2023, households spent about $124 million on butter. Between 15 percent and 30 percent of households would buy butter over a one- or two-week period. But the country exported $5.2 billion worth. "It's not nearly worth trying to change the domestic butter game at the expense of our very lucrative export potential," Brad Olsen, chief executive at Infometrics said. "Being in China at the moment, I've been looking around here ... we are still charging more in our premium export markets than we are seeing domestically. "I mean in New Zealand, butter is $8.50 to $11 depending on who you're talking to or what shop you're going to. I've found an Anchor block in China that was only 454 grams for about $13.52. So the export stuff works for us." India is also a large producer of butter and has comparatively low prices, but Olsen said that was not comparable because farmers there were getting a subsidy of up to a third. In Australia, there was no GST on fresh food. Butter is about 7 percent of total New Zealand exports. "So yes, consumers get hit with higher butter prices in New Zealand," Olsen said. "But we make a lot more as a country from the exports that we send out overseas. And I guess you know, cause there's all this talk of, well, what happens if butter prices were lower ... I do think that there is this conception that if magically butter prices were lower, everything else would be the same too. "And that's just a complete false economy. If you had persistently lower butter prices, then there wouldn't be quite as many people farming. Or they wouldn't be the same profits from manufacturing and similar from Fonterra and what have you. That would mean there would be less money going into the economy across the country, people would have fewer jobs than they would at the moment. And so you might be paying cheaper, better prices. But you might not have a job. "That's the trade off that, that to a degree we're talking about ... I also think we talk a lot about butter. How much butter does every household in New Zealand consume? Like how many blocks are you guys buying?" Westpac chief economist Kelly Eckhold said it was good for the country overall that dairy prices were high. "Exports of cheese is $3 billion. All these dairy products are rising for the same underlying reason - demand for milk fats is increasing. Butter and cheese in particular are the things the world wants." He said the conversation was influenced by the fact that everyone encountered the retail price but not everyone was exposed to the export earnings. "One thing to think about is the gains from the income are more narrowly shared than the costs that come to all of us. We all go to the supermarket and buy a bit of butter and cheese and milk. "But if I look at employment trends on a regional basis, you can see in the last few months the regions where jobs are growing are Canterbury, Otago, Southland, West Coast, Marlborough ... these are areas that have a much higher agricultural and dairy input. There are more jobs in those parts of the country whereas Wellington and Auckland are very weak. There aren't many dairy farms in Remuera unfortunately." He said a wider problem was not that dairy products' price was rising but that New Zealand incomes were not keeping up. "Prices are being bid up by people overseas who are wealthier than us and their incomes are growing more strongly. "That's why they can afford to pay the prices that are pushing the prices up. The question isn't should we be redistributing further the profits form those sector. The question should be what can we do to improve the incomes of Kiwis so when demand goes up overseas we can keep pace. If we can do something that gets job growth up that's unequivocally better than putting price controls on butter or cheese." Sign up for Ngā Pitopito Kōrero , a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.
Time Business News
24-07-2025
- Business
- Time Business News
Ancor Situs Judi Bola: Your Trusted Pillar in Online Soccer Betting
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