Commentary Remember “I can’t believe it’s not butter”? Well, here in Canada we can’t believe it is butter while staring at a waxy yellow product that doesn’t soften at room temperature. Thanks to the government. Various news stories blamed dairy farmers for feeding cows palm oil. Which you might agree they should not do because (a) it doesn’t seem very natural and (b) you might be reluctant to consume palm oil directly. You probably don’t keep anything with that label in your kitchen, though actually there’s a lot of it in various processed foods. Also (c) it makes what is sold as butter in Canada even less like the real thing. But as usual when people do something weird, the question you should ask is “Who paid them to do it?” Not as a conspiracy theory. Because incentives matter. But as speaking economese tends to have roughly the same effect …