LessWrong (Curated & Popular) Thoughts on seed oil
Apr 21, 2024
34:23
This is a linkpost for https://dynomight.net/seed-oil/A friend has spent the last three years hounding me about seed oils. Every time I thought I was safe, he’d wait a couple months and renew his attack:
“When are you going to write about seed oils?”
“Did you know that seed oils are why there's so much {obesity, heart disease, diabetes, inflammation, cancer, dementia}?”
“Why did you write about {meth, the death penalty, consciousness, nukes, ethylene, abortion, AI, aliens, colonoscopies, Tunnel Man, Bourdieu, Assange} when you could have written about seed oils?”
“Isn’t it time to quit your silly navel-gazing and use your weird obsessive personality to make a dent in the world—by writing about seed oils?”
He’d often send screenshots of people reminding each other that Corn Oil is Murder and that it's critical that we overturn our lives to eliminate soybean/canola/sunflower/peanut oil and replace them with butter/lard/coconut/avocado/palm oil.
This confused [...]
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First published:
April 20th, 2024
Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/DHkkL2GxhxoceLzua/thoughts-on-seed-oil
Linkpost URL:
https://dynomight.net/seed-oil/
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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.
“When are you going to write about seed oils?”
“Did you know that seed oils are why there's so much {obesity, heart disease, diabetes, inflammation, cancer, dementia}?”
“Why did you write about {meth, the death penalty, consciousness, nukes, ethylene, abortion, AI, aliens, colonoscopies, Tunnel Man, Bourdieu, Assange} when you could have written about seed oils?”
“Isn’t it time to quit your silly navel-gazing and use your weird obsessive personality to make a dent in the world—by writing about seed oils?”
He’d often send screenshots of people reminding each other that Corn Oil is Murder and that it's critical that we overturn our lives to eliminate soybean/canola/sunflower/peanut oil and replace them with butter/lard/coconut/avocado/palm oil.
This confused [...]
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First published:
April 20th, 2024
Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/DHkkL2GxhxoceLzua/thoughts-on-seed-oil
Linkpost URL:
https://dynomight.net/seed-oil/
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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.