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3 Reasons You Should Be Eating Lard

Despite what misguided opinion and conglomerate “food” manufacturers have tried to drill into our heads over the last 80 years or so, lard is actually far more healthy than any of the test-tube alternatives on grocery store shelves. In fact, our ancestors have been eating it for hundreds and hundreds of years. This beautiful fat was yet another casualty of the early 20th-century shift from locally-grown, organic food to industrialized food production. In the early 1900s, the Proctor & Gamble company figured out they could extract oil from cottonseed. Though it went quickly rancid and was highly unstable, the hydrogenation process allowed the ...