What to Know About Seed Oils and Animal Fats: Sally Fallon Morell
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Animal fats are expensive and the food industry needs a cheap oil.
And this started in the 1890s when they developed the stainless steel press, which allowed them to get oil out of seeds that you couldn't do that before.
So the first one was cottonseed oil, and then they could get oil out of corn, which had never been done before, and then canola, which is rapeseed, and soybeans.
So they started using these instead of the animal fats, and they had a big campaign to make you think that these seed oils were a healthy alternative to animal fats.
But they're not somehow?
No, they're not.
They're not.
The problem with the oils is that they're fragile.
Any liquid oil is fragile and it oxidizes easily and it breaks down in the body into simple molecules called aldehydes.
Not to get too technical, but there is an aldehyde that you know about.
It's called formaldehyde.
And I think it's very interesting that the undertakers are saying they don't need as much formaldehyde anymore to cure or preserve these bodies.
It's already there.
And this is coming from the seed oils.
And they have been implicated.
They're carcinogenic.
They know that.
They have been implicated in heart disease and many other conditions.
And infertility is another thing that they lead to.
These things are ubiquitous.
They are everywhere.
I'd never heard anything about, like, why would you have something that's known carcinogenic?
Like, this doesn't make a terrible amount of sense to most people.
So we have to kind of back up a little bit.
Follow the money.
I mean, it's much less expensive to use soybean oil or corn oil and then butter.
Butter is a very expensive fat, or lard or tallow.
Those are the three main ones.
And then there's also what I call the fruit oils, which is palm oil, coconut oil, palm kernel oil.
These are much healthier than the seed oils because they're more saturated.
And you know, the saturated fats have been demonized.