Margarine in a tub (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Like my grandmother before me, I have never had a tub of margarine in the house. Perhaps thanks to her, my gut instinct has always told me that butter is better for you.
Not only does butter taste incomparably better, it’s a natural product that human beings have been eating and cooking with for centuries without damaging their health.
Why swap it for margarine, a highly synthetic and unpleasant-tasting concoction laced with additives and cheap, low-grade oils refined on an industrial scale?
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Reblogged this on Oyia Brown.
my gut has told me this for years, too. as well as a superficial understanding of the principles of chinese medicine
I knew this 50 years ago.
Milk is the king of foods and nothing else even comes close.
The authorities lie(d) about everything.
and eggs,, you forgot about the eggs!!
How can something as foul tasting as margarine not be bad for you?
It is a sickly gray color before they add food coloring, similar to hot dogs, which are a pale green color before the food coloring is added. Somewhere along the line, we stopped eating butter, milk and real cheese and began eating toxic chemicals. Now go and look at who sits on the board of directors of Kraft Foods and learn who your enemies are.
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This topic needs to be thoroughly aired and seriously studied.
So much vested interest influences information from all sides. Certainly, a great deal of the criticisms levelled at the synthetic margarine product(s) are convincing and health risks are real.
With butter, the heart medical industry are still opposing “animal” fats, their conclusions also require assessment.
On the whole, it seems to me that butter is better.
Margarine is…corn oil. That’s it. Corn oil. It’s not “chemical gunk” (any more so than anything is a chemical).
It was developed as a butter substitute. Milk was in short supply, but corn wasn’t. Simple.
Margarine may not taste good, but to call it “highly synthetic” is ridiculous fear-mongering.
“Not only does butter taste incomparably better, it’s a natural product that human beings have been eating and cooking with for centuries without damaging their health.”
Mmm, in actual fact, butter was churned by paleolithic humans, the “manufacturing” remains of which have been found in Irish bogs. Thousands of years is the correct time. I’d strongly suspect all of Europe was making butter starting in that period. Any ancient civilization with goats, sheep, cattle or horses…made “butter.”
I stopped eating margarine 30 years ago. I substituted olive oil about 15 years ago. Try this: fry stale bread (one side) in a dash of olive oil and top with finely sliced tomato, a bit of salt and chopped mint.
Better than butter.
Olive oil doesn’t go very well with jam and sweets, so that’s good. You don’t eat that.
http://www.stop-trans-fat.com/how-is-margarine-made.html