Path: news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!i2pn.org!i2pn2.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: dsi100@yahoo.com (dsi1) Newsgroups: rec.food.cooking Subject: Re: Is there beef tallow in your =?UTF-8?B?ZnV0dXJlPw==?= Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2025 18:45:42 +0000 Organization: Rocksolid Light Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: i2pn2.org; logging-data="45684"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@i2pn2.org"; posting-account="fvfMHpfyYaD/vlBz5lqYkjt6mNUTPbft/wBbWy6Ff1w"; User-Agent: Rocksolid Light X-Rslight-Posting-User: 3a41f635759bc15db100ab3d5cacd588ab964edd X-Rslight-Site: $2y$10$SfSdyTcxpwVhDQJc5e/ouuTFvkJb4ecxQ6wKW/lX85wW947lsgsSe X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 On Fri, 14 Feb 2025 18:06:08 +0000, Jill McQuown wrote: > On 2/14/2025 10:10 AM, Ed P wrote: >> With Kennedy, there may be >> >> Kennedy could boost beef tallow demand >> Robert F. Kennedy Jr. lowered a raw Thanksgiving turkey into a bubbling >> pot of cooking fat in a video posted to social media last November. >> >> “This is how we cook the MAHA way,” said Kennedy, who the Senate >> confirmed as head of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on >> Thursday, referring to his Trump administration slogan, Make America >> Healthy Again. >> >> Kennedy was cooking with beef tallow, or rendered beef fat, which he has >> repeatedly claimed is healthier than canola or other oils from seeds. >> >> Beef tallow, used primarily for cooking but also in products like soap >> and biodiesel, has been championed by a subset of online wellness >> influencers. Its nutritional merits compared to seed oils, however, have >> been disputed. >> > Wait a minute. Didn't *some* people get all upset eons ago because > McDonald's had been cooking their fries in beef tallow? Those people > claimed it was unhealthful. Then some McD's fans said the fries didn't > taste nearly as good after they switched to a vegetable oil for frying. > Darn, now I'm all confused. ;) > > Jill Obviously, McDonald's can't use animal fat for their fries because vegans won't be buying them. McDonald's can just forget about people that claim that the fries don't taste as good. These people will continue to buy the fries and everything else from the big M no matter what.