These cultists are always looking for something to be doomy over
Are Vegetable Oils High Carbon & Bad For Climate Change?
After writing about some of the worst foods for climate change, which are beef and dairy products, farmed shrimp, lamb, and pork, I wondered if vegetable oils too have a high carbon footprint. It turns out, they do, according to this article about a 2022 study: ““Whilst vegetable oils might not seem like one of the biggest food groups, they can in fact be found everywhere. Production of the crops that produce vegetable oil also takes up around 20 percent of arable land worldwide, so vegetable oil production is definitely a big contributor to global GHG emissions, as well as other sustainability issues such as biodiversity loss,” says Alcock.”
Vegetable oils, though commonly used, are actually not necessary for health nutrition or consumption. There is an idea that they are better for human health than using butter and lard, for example. However, no one must consume lard or butter and therefore, there is nothing mandatory about consuming vegetable oils either. Some cuisines may have used butter and lard for many years before nutrition and health science discovered how unhealthy they can be and how they have contributed to heart disease in humans.
So, it seems logical to replace them with healthier alternatives, but in fact, there is an alternative which is simply to stop consuming butter, lard, margarine, and vegetable oils. None of them have ever been essential for human consumption and in fact can be detrimental to human health.
These people are just so depressing.
But, but, in what will we deep-fat fry our tater tots, nuggets, chips, fries, shrimps and rice?
America’s chief scientist and physician, Dr RFK Jr, recommends beef tallow! After all we’re harvesting millions of cows for their unaffordable beef, why not harvest their tallow? Dr RFK Jr hates “seed oils”, you know, from rapeseeds*, corn, soybeans, sunflowers and peanuts.
Dr RFK Jr, while mostly wrong, IS RIGHT about ultraprocessed foods with added high-fructose corn syrup, fruit juice concentrates, dextrose, maltose, molasses, invert sugar, hydrogenated oils, interesterified oils, saturated fats, mulsifiers (soy lecithin, monoglycerides), thickeners (xanthan gum, guar gum, carrageenan), artificial flavors, flavor enhancers (monosodium glutamate/MSG, disodium phosphate), artificial dyes (e.g., FD&C Yellow No. 6), sodium benzoate, potassium sorbate, ascorbic acid, tocopherols, starches and protein sources, such as soy protein isolate or hydrolyzed proteins.
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*rapeseed: The Canadians wisely relabeled rapeseed oil as Canola (Canada oil).
The distinguished Mr Dowd wrote:
Hot air?
We do have an air fryer, and it works pretty decently. But the fact that it works should not be a reason for the government to mandate their use in an exclusion of frying in fats, butter, or oils.
Here’s my recipe! Soak the beef liver in milk for two hours. Reduce onions by frying in butter, real butter, in an iron skillet. Use lots of butter. When onions are reduced, pull them out of the skillet to drain on a paper towel over a plate. Bread liver in flour, salt and pepper, fry pieces in the remaining butter, adding more if necessary, for just 2½ minutes on each side. Plate the liver, serve with the reduced onions on top.
Serve with rice and broccoli.
You’re welcome.
Since they’re not essential, how long will it be before the warmunists try to ban them completely, for our own good, don’t you know?
Our British cousins are now completely banning the sale of cigarettes, forever, to anyone born after 2008. No more allowing adults to choose to engage in an admittedly unhealth habit; the Brits are just going to ban it. Our Betters know better than we do how to run our own lives.
He can’t even run his own life; I’ll be damned if he’ll run mine!