Exclusive | Meet the tots whose parents are feeding their kids sticks of raw butter all in the name of health

Angela Campbell’s 17-month-old daughter has expensive taste. While other tots often go for the fast and cheap, baby Campbell prefers her treats rich, decadent and imported from the Southwest Pacific. But it’s not haute couture that the little one craves — it’s butter. “She loves it.She actually asks for it, saying, ‘Butter, butter!’ all the time,” Campbell, 29, from Orlando, Florida, who chose not to provide her daughter’s name for privacy, told The Post.
“Her favorite is this $11.99 grass-fed butter from New Zealand.”“My husband thinks it’s weird and gross, so sometimes I’m like, ‘I’ll give you butter when daddy goes to work,’” the nurse-turned-stay-at-home-mom continued with a laugh.“I don’t care what anyone else has to say about it.”“Butter is good for babies.”From whipped to melted, from hunks to whole sticks, parents of the “butter baby boom,” like Campbell, are working globs of the golden goodness into their kiddos’ daily diets as a supposed nutrient-dense snack packed with essential vitamins — such as Vitamins A, E and K — and omega-3 fatty acids that reportedly support itty bitty growing bodies. Mamas with medical insights, like Kate Pope, better known to her over 178,000 social media followers as the “Wild Nutritionist,” and Cinthia Scott, a pediatric dietitian, have long-touted the alleged boons of butter for babies, claiming the condiment boosts brain, digestive and nervous system development, as well as softens skin and enhances sleep quality. And when it comes to types of butter, quality is key, per mothers of the movement. Rather than pumping their pups full of the cheapest spreadable on the market, many butter-happy families are happily spending top dollar on raw, cultured butter sourced from grass-fed and finished cows (cattle that exclusively ate grass and forage for their entire life). Still, haters who have beef with the buttery parenting style have deemed it “abusive,” �...