I have started to wonder if the fact that adding it back makes it so vegetarians and vegans can no longer eat french fries (that are made with it) had anything to do with that decision… Or was that just an “unexpected bonus” in their minds?
It prob is a “some culture warrior/bodybuilder misread a piece of research and it turned into a culture war conspiracy” thing. Like soy. (My silly nickname predates the culture war stuff by several decades, it comes from Shadowrun).
Bitcoin was a typo, he meant beef tallow
The beef tallow thing is painfully stupid…
I have started to wonder if the fact that adding it back makes it so vegetarians and vegans can no longer eat french fries (that are made with it) had anything to do with that decision… Or was that just an “unexpected bonus” in their minds?
It prob is a “some culture warrior/bodybuilder misread a piece of research and it turned into a culture war conspiracy” thing. Like soy. (My silly nickname predates the culture war stuff by several decades, it comes from Shadowrun).
E: yes looked it up, comes via RFK of course and is anti seed oils thing. https://www.diningandcooking.com/1742624/america-stopped-cooking-with-tallow-for-a-reason/ and the anti seeds oil thing is an idea that has been spreading through the (far) right blogosphere for a decade or more (that is when I heard of it, so prob existed before that).
Our friends of the pod at lw also joined in https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/DHkkL2GxhxoceLzua/thoughts-on-seed-oil (but it concludes the seed oil theory is full of shit, points for LW there, well done (dont read the comments, there is roundup in the seed oils)).