RFK Jr.'s spiel in the FOX News interview is that he and the Trump2 administration are going to incentivize fast-food chains in the United States to switch from cooking in "seed oils" (a poorly defined term unrelated to, say, pumpkin seed oil) to cooking in "traditional ingredients like beef tallow."

Here's a conventional science take on cooking in so-called seed oils.

If you know me, you know I stick to a gluten-free, low to no sugar, entirely or almost entirely vegan diet, and I dislike psychopharmaceuticals and conventional science, so you might wonder why I'm beefing--pun intended--with RFK Jr.

If you know my writings, you also know the MAGA playbook for controversial ideas: leverage the gap left open by corporate-funded Dems' terror of admitting the serious problems in the status quo of a topic (such as voting computer security or nutrition) to describe those problems in your own baseless, misleading, or superficial way that might sounds genius to the illiterate right-leaning public, and then prescribe yourself, your companies, and your cronies and their companies as the (actually harmful, likely even worse) solution.

It's somewhat the same deal here. Corn oil and canola oil have their place, but it's not in the fryer of a fast food restaurant alongside a bunch of weird chemicals. On the other hand, while RFK Jr. presents fast food processing as the secret Big Bad he's uncovered, well, it isn't good for you, but there are far worse things than occasionally eating a Snickers bar or a burger from an airport fast foot place during a layover, which again, isn't great, but we all know life comes at you fast sometimes (get it?). The Big Bad of nutrition is more simple: it's sugar. Not to mention sedentary no-exercise lifestyles and overeating oversized portions. But Dems aren't going to truly take on the United States sugar addiction or such things as mass animal slaughter/agriculture (what's more controversial than politics or religion at the dinner table? the actual dinner you're eating), so RFK Jr.'s Make America Healthy Again people can say, look, surely it's common sense that the Steak n' Shake fryer is a danger zone, and then they can say, surely RFK Jr. is here to save us with beef tallow subsidies and whatever else the Trump2 administration comes up with. I reckon not.

I haven't researched if RFK Jr. has funding connections to the animal slaughterhouse industry, or beef tallow, or what; feel free to dig in to that. As for his health advice, if you're tempted to take him seriously, just have a look sometime at his fucking bronze monster-face. How on Earth can that be healthy?

Prepared by Douglas Lucas in March 2025 as a footnote for his blog post that month entitled title goes here.