Fonterra and Greenpeace settle dispute over butter label

Fonterra and Greenpeace settle dispute over butter label

Fonterra and Greenpeace have agreed to resolve a dispute over labelling on butter. The proceeding concerns claims by Greenpeace that a label on Anchor butter sold in New Zealand supermarkets between December 2023 and April 2025 was misleading and in breach of the Fair Trading Act 1986. It argued that it was misleading because the diet of cows whose milk was used to make the butter included non-grass feed including palm kernel expeller (PKE), an …