Kerrygold, Ireland’s best-known global food brand, is facing a class-action lawsuit in the United States over its marketing claim that Irish dairy cows whose milk makes the butter are fed on grass.
A San Diego-based real-estate executive has filed the case in California against Ornua, formerly the Irish Dairy Board, the co-operative that owns the brand.
Dyami Myers-Taylor accuses Kerrygold of “false and misleading advertising”. He says Irish cows are not exclusively grass-fed because they often eat other materials, such as grain or soya, when weather is bad and there is no grass to eat. He also claims some of these feeds can be genetically modified.
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