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BREAKING: Many plants protect themselves against predation by being poisonous!

Since the medical industry told us for the past 20 years that vegetable oil was good for you and animal fat was bad for you I have just assumed that vegetable oil was horrible for you and animal fat was great for you. And of course this is now proving to be admitted.

Wow! Soyboys are real and they're fat fucking losers! Who would've guessed???

And they are turning the frogs gay (which turned out to be true)

If you think about it there is not enough oil in any vegetable or plant really to ever have been extracted or encountered by the human body eating any normal amount of any of these things. Therefore it's highly likely that the body would not have any real defenses against a large quantity of these things. And of course just because something appears in something that is edible does not mean huge amounts of it are safe.

The perfect example of that is arsenic and almonds. Arsenic appears in almonds and almonds are edible and they're actually arguably a food source in small quantities but if you eat more than a large handful you're going to start having stomach pain and you if you eat a large enough amount of a package you can easily end up in the hospital with severe stomach trauma.

So I really think we ought to look at vegetable oils as being not much different than eating oil bubbling out of the ground. It's a completely unnatural product that we're putting in our bodies which we excuse because we say they come from vegetables. But in reality it's probably not much different than eating large quantities of Vaseline.