Dark Calories: How Vegetable Oils Destroy Our Health and How We Can Get It Back
By Dr Catherine Shanahan
How Vegetable Oil Is Made To keep up with the huge demand, vegetable oil refining takes place inside astoundingly large factories. From the outside, these factories are indistinguishable from oil and gas refineries—like those you see in the opening sequence of The Sopranos, as Tony cruises a section of the Jersey Turnpike above the infamously smelly industrial section of the city of Elizabeth.
The Astonishing Truth About Dodgy Seed Oils
The process begins as the oilseeds are pumped out of the delivery trucks and into the factory via metal ductwork. They enter a series of large metal cooking and cleaning chambers that heat the seeds to between 400 and 600 degrees Fahrenheit several times, in preparation for oil extraction.…