Epoch Times - What to Know About Seed Oils and Animal Fats: Sally Fallon Morell
Aired: 2025-10-09
Duration: 02:27


=== Why Seed Oils Are Not So Healthy (02:27) ===

[00:00:00]  Animal fats are expensive and the food industry needs a cheap oil.
[00:00:06]  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.
[00:00:18]  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.
[00:00:32]  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.
[00:00:45]  But they're not somehow?
[00:00:47]  No, they're not.
[00:00:48]  They're not.
[00:00:50]  The problem with the oils is that they're fragile.
[00:00:54]  Any liquid oil is fragile and it oxidizes easily and it breaks down in the body into simple molecules called aldehydes.
[00:01:04]  Not to get too technical, but there is an aldehyde that you know about.
[00:01:08]  It's called formaldehyde.
[00:01:10]  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.
[00:01:19]  It's already there.
[00:01:21]  And this is coming from the seed oils.
[00:01:24]  And they have been implicated.
[00:01:27]  They're carcinogenic.
[00:01:28]  They know that.
[00:01:29]  They have been implicated in heart disease and many other conditions.
[00:01:33]  And infertility is another thing that they lead to.
[00:01:38]  These things are ubiquitous.
[00:01:39]  They are everywhere.
[00:01:42]  I'd never heard anything about, like, why would you have something that's known carcinogenic?
[00:01:47]  Like, this doesn't make a terrible amount of sense to most people.
[00:01:51]  So we have to kind of back up a little bit.
[00:01:54]  Follow the money.
[00:01:55]  I mean, it's much less expensive to use soybean oil or corn oil and then butter.
[00:02:02]  Butter is a very expensive fat, or lard or tallow.
[00:02:07]  Those are the three main ones.
[00:02:08]  And then there's also what I call the fruit oils, which is palm oil, coconut oil, palm kernel oil.
[00:02:15]  These are much healthier than the seed oils because they're more saturated.
[00:02:19]  And you know, the saturated fats have been demonized.
[00:02:22]  But the saturated fats are the good fats.
[00:02:25]  They're the stable fats that don't break down.