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@MorlockP Soybean oil was, very literally, only used as an industrial lubricant/paint base until DepAg had a big conclave about how to foist it on people as food. https://t.co/eTJtL9XFwR
@MorlockP Soybean oil was, very literally, only used as an industrial lubricant/paint base until DepAg had a big conclave about how to foist it on people as food. https://t.co/eTJtL9XFwR
For anyone so inclined, this is an academic study of how soybean oil went from toxic waste product/industrial lubricant to completely pervasive in the US food supply: https://t.co/eTJtL9XFwR
@kevinnbass When did soybean oil enter the mainstream? Looks like according to this: https://t.co/5MaODohORM it was around then.