The following Mark's Daily Apple article was written by Marxist and is narrated by Brock Armstrong.

The Definitive Guide to Oils

Before you can hope to make it as a speculator and start slinging barrels for big money,

you've got to understand exactly what's gushing forth from the earth's crust. Yes, that's right.

It doesn't start and stop just with crude, and there's far more to oil than dinosaur bones.

In fact, most experts agree that the bulk of crude oil is derived from prehistoric

single-celled plankton remains. Then you've got the abiogenic theory which posits that

uh, hmm, wrong oils. Sorry. Today's post is actually about edible oils. Well, they're all technically edible.

They can be swallowed and digested, but as far as being palatable, let alone healthful,

that remains to be seen.

Not all oils are created equal, especially given the fact that most of the ones people use

nowadays are actually

created in an industrial laboratory. No oil exists naturally, mind you. Olive oil isn't harvested

by leaving open containers under leaking dripping olives on the branch, nor is that liquid sloshing

around inside a coconut, pure oil.

I'm not trying to disparage processing in and of itself.

It takes a certain amount of processing to get all sort of oil,

but a general rule is to avoid consuming the oils that require processing on a large scale.

If it involves an industrial plant,

multiple stainless steel vats,

a deodorizer, a de-gummer,

and the harsh petroleum-derived solvent,

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