You can know that the marching orders have gone out to the corporate state media stenographers when virtually the same articles appear across multiple legacy outlets within a single news cycle.
Here’s the universal formula for this current crop of pro-seed oil treatises:
- You are too stupid to have known about seed oils before now. Luckily, we’re here to set you straight.
- Conspiracy theorists, led by RFK Jr., mainstreamed the anti-seed-oil hysteria, honing in on the “hateful eight” (a term rarely actually used by said “conspiracy theorists”).
- “The experts say” that seed oils are actually great for your health.
- Butter, like all animal products, is a tool of the devil.
- Here’s a single study we cherry-picked — probably bankrolled indirectly by the industry through a labyrinthine maze of “nonprofits” — while we ignore the reams and reams of evidence to the contrary.
The talking points get rearranged, but that is the gist. Virtually every article from the past week in corporate state media hits on each of those pillars at some point, and mostly in that order.
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Samplings
Just consider the uncanny similarity in not just the content but the verbiage of these three recent propaganda ditties — a small sampling of the genre out there, which you can peruse for yourself if you just search “seed oil MAHA” or something to that effect.
Via The Cut (emphasis added):
In recent months, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has made the alleged dangers of “seed oils” a rallying cry among his MAHA supporters, calling them “one of the most unhealthy ingredients we have in foods” and suggesting people fry their food with beef tallow instead. This claim has baffled nutrition experts, considering that a robust body of research shows that common oils derived from vegetables — including canola, corn, and sunflower oil — are healthier alternatives to butter and lard. And the evidence is only growing: A new study found that people who consume more seed oils may actually have a lower risk of death.
Via Associated Press (emphasis added):
Until recently, most Americans had never heard the term “seed oils,” even though they’ve likely cooked with and consumed them for decades.
It’s the catchy description coined by internet influencers, wellness gurus and some politicians to refer to common cooking oils — think canola, soybean and corn oil — that have long been staples in many home kitchens.
Those fiery critics refer to the top refined vegetable oils as “the hateful eight” and claim that they’re fueling inflammation and high rates of chronic diseases like obesity and diabetes.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the new health secretary, has said Americans are being “unknowingly poisoned” by seed oils and has called for fast-food restaurants to return to using beef tallow, or rendered animal fat, in their fryers instead…
The seed oil discussion has exasperated nutrition scientists, who say decades of research confirms the health benefits of consuming such oils, especially in place of alternatives such as butter or lard.
Via Salon (emphasis added):
In his efforts to Make America Healthy Again (better known as the MAHA campaign), Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is rioting against seed oils. The movement has gained significant attention across social media, with influencers, podcasters (namely, Joe Rogan) and, even, restaurant chains slamming on seed oils…
The term seed oils is fairly new and refers to cooking oils extracted from the seeds of various plants that are then refined using chemicals like hexane and tertiary-butylhydroquinone (TBHQ), a synthetic preservative. In recent years, supporters of the MAHA movement have taken issue with eight specific seed oils: corn, canola, cottonseed, grapeseed, soy, sunflower, safflower and rice bran — collectively dubbed the “hateful eight.” Their main argument is that seed oils are high in omega-six fatty acids, which aren’t detrimental to human health but can lead to inflammation when consumed in excess.
“First, while seed oils do contain high levels of omega-six fatty acids, that's not a bad thing,” per the American Heart Association.
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As a side note — and you have to wonder why you never hear this complaint lodged by so-called environmentalists with a singular fixation on carbon dioxide — the monoculture required to supply the seed oil market worth hundreds of billions of dollars in the United States alone is, in addition to being devastating human health, also disastrous for soil integrity.
