Seed oils, sometimes referred to as vegetable oils, constitute a class of fats that have become ubiquitous in the modern Western diet.
Unlike traditional fats derived from animals or fruits (such as olive oil or coconut oil), seed oils are extracted from plant seeds through heavy industrial processing, often involving bleaching, heating, and extensive chemical extraction.
Common examples include soybean, corn, canola, cottonseed, rapeseed, grapeseed, sunflower, safflower, and rice bran oils. These oils are notably high in polyunsaturated fats, specifically omega-6 fatty acids, such as linoleic acid.
Historical Introduction and Dietary Shift
Historically, human populations consumed fats from animal sources, such as beef tallow and lard, or from fruits, like olive oil.
Refined sugar, first widely introduced around 1822, and cottonseed oil, first consumed by humans in the US in 1866, marked a departure from traditional diets. Cottonseed oil was initially used as lubrication in industrial machinery, only later adapted for human consumption as whale oil supplies diminished.
Roller mill technology, which refines wheat flour, became widespread around 1880. The early 20th century saw a significant shift with Procter and Gamble introducing Crisco (a trans fat derived from cottonseed oil) in 1911, designed to imitate butter and solidify at room temperature.
Prior to 1900, recorded cases of heart disease were virtually non-existent, with the first known death from heart disease occurring in 1912. The subsequent skyrocketing of heart disease deaths closely tracks the increase in vegetable oil consumption.
Data indicates a five-and-a-half-fold increase in vegetable oil consumption from 1950 to 2010. This transition was not accidental; for instance, McDonald's, which formerly cooked everything in beef tallow, transitioned to seed oils in the late 1980s or early 1990s due to external pressures from organisations like the American Heart Association.
Ideological Roots and the Anti-Meat Agenda
The promotion of seed oils and the broader shift away from traditional, animal-based diets is deeply intertwined with utopian and revolutionary ideologies that seek to remake man and society. This agenda can be traced back to historical figures and movements:
- Ancient Philosophical and Religious Influences:
Ideas that eating meat is inherently sinful or "base" and "dirties the soul" can be found in certain ancient groups, such as the Nazarenes, Ebionites, and Encratites, as noted by Saint John of Damascus. These groups often linked the prohibition of meat consumption with gnostic ideas that physical reality and procreation are inherently bad. Pythagoras, an ancient Greek philosopher, also held that meat eating made men violent and inflamed their passions.
- Jacobin Mindset and Malthusian Theory:
The Jacobins, proponents of the French Revolution, were obsessed with dismantling existing structures to rebuild society. This included an attempt to "reinvent man" through diet.
Thomas Malthus, an economist, argued that population growth would outstrip food supply, leading to famine. While his theory was based on historical agricultural methods and was later disproven by industrial innovations (e.g., new fertilisers, automated tractors, improved plant technology that increased per-acre yields by over 50% in the 1870s), his ideas were utilised to justify population control.
Malthus even suggested crowding people into cities to breed pestilence and death, promoting a form of eugenics where only the strongest would survive. This Malthusian framework has been used to justify curtailing food supply to suppress birth rates.
- 19th and 20th Century Movements:
- Promethean and Luciferian Archetypes:
Revolutionary thinkers, steeped in occultism, often looked to Prometheus (a figure who stole fire from the gods) as a patron, viewing him as an ideal archetype for man's liberation from traditional constraints.
- Early Vegetarians and Communists:
Figures like Benjamin Franklin, Percy Shelley, and Joseph Ritson promoted vegetarianism with utopian ideals. Ritson, a proponent of the revolutionary calendar, wrote an essay titled "Essay on Abstinence from Animal Food as a Moral Duty," claiming that slavery could be traced back to eating meat, thereby placing humans on the same moral level as animals. This connects to the broader [[Communist]] ideology where societal structures are inverted.
- Seventh-Day Adventism and Kellogg:
The Seventh-Day Adventist movement, influenced by Ellen G. White's "channelled" information, asserted that red meat inflames human passions and makes individuals virile.
John Harvey Kellogg, a prominent Seventh-Day Adventist, developed unpalatable, flavourless breakfast cereals, believing they would curb sexual urges and lead to a more temperate life. His brother later commercialised these products by adding sugar, leading to the ubiquitous breakfast cereal as a refined, highly marketable, and nutrient-deficient food.
Marketing, Control, and Public Health Guidelines
The promotion of seed oils and processed foods was significantly aided by powerful marketing campaigns that linked these products to *liberation*. Narratives suggested that women could be liberated from the "shackles" of traditional food preparation involving "dirty animals" by embracing hyper-industrialised alternatives like Crisco and cornflakes.
This also encouraged a move to cities and a more modern, industrialised lifestyle.
This ideological push for dietary change was systematised through various public health organisations. The American Heart Association, FDA, USDA, [[UN]], and [[World Economic Forum]] have played a role in shaping modern dietary guidelines.
The food pyramid, for instance, often recommends six to twelve servings of grains daily, with fats placed at the apex, implicitly discouraging their consumption.
These guidelines, widely adopted, have led to significant dietary shifts: from 1970 to 2014, red meat consumption diminished by 28%, beef by 35%, and veal/mutton/lamb by 75%, while poultry and chicken consumption increased by 100% and 114% respectively.
Simultaneously, vegetable oil consumption rose by 87%, contrasting with decreases in animal fats (27%) and butter (9%). These shifts were largely followed by the public, demonstrating the effectiveness of the marketing and credentialled authority.
Adverse Health Effects
The increased consumption of seed oils and processed foods is linked to a catastrophic decline in public health, particularly evident in Western nations.
- Mitochondrial Dysfunction and Inflammation:
Excess omega-6 fatty acids from seed oils are stored in adipose (fat) tissues, leading to catastrophic lipid peroxidation cascades. This generates highly reactive oxygen species and causes hyperinflammatory responses within the body. This, in turn, contributes to mitochondrial dysfunction, damaging the "powerhouses of the cell" that produce cellular energy.
- Chronic Diseases:
Mitochondrial dysfunction is directly implicated in a wide range of modern diseases:
- Heart failure
- Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes (through insulin resistance and the body's inability to efficiently use insulin)
- Cancer (through mitochondrial DNA mutation)
- Alzheimer's disease (through cell apoptosis, necrosis, and neurodegeneration). Alzheimer's and dementia are essentially non-existent in populations consuming traditional diets.
- Physiological and Mental Deterioration:
The degradation of the myelin sheath, essential for the central nervous system, is linked to a lack of animal fats. Dietary factors also affect social and mental health. While difficult to fully quantify historical rates, modern levels of mental illness, societal discord, and physical degeneration (e.g., dental caries, narrowness in hips, stunted bones, rotted teeth) were less prevalent in traditional, healthy populations, as documented by Dr. Weston A. Price.
Violent criminals, for example, statistically have low cholesterol, which is a building block for sex steroid hormones like testosterone. Low cholesterol is associated with risk-seeking behaviour, suicide, and violence, suggesting a derangement rather than a healthy aggression.
- Obesity Epidemic:
The high consumption of seed oils combined with refined carbohydrates creates a double negative effect. Foods high in unhealthy fats and carbohydrates (e.g., doughnuts, pizzas) stimulate insulin, a fat-storage hormone, and ghrelin, a hunger hormone, leading to increased fat storage and chronic hunger. The American diet, characterised by high carbohydrate and high unhealthy fat intake, epitomises this, resulting in significantly higher rates of morbid obesity compared to other Western nations.
The Agenda of Control
Beyond health implications, the promotion of seed oils and processed foods is seen as a deliberate method of control.
- Economic Consolidation:
Genetically modified soybeans and corn, key sources of seed oils, rely on patented seeds and heavy machinery, which require substantial capital investment often funded by institutions like the IMF. This facilitates a consolidated global monopoly system dominated by an oligarchy, controlling resources and populations.
- Depopulation and Mutagenesis:
Certain elements within the global elite, including figures associated with the World Economic Forum and Transhumanist movements (such as David Pearce), explicitly advocate for reducing human population to *"manageable levels" and even mutating man at the cellular and social levels. This aligns with a view of man as a "malleable mutant" or an animal to be controlled, mutated, and exterminated.*
- Resource Control and Farming:
The current fertiliser crisis, often attributed to geopolitical events, is leveraged to further centralise and industrialise farming. This aims to phase out rural populations and family farms, replacing them with a highly efficient, planned system. This strategy is also visible in historical events, such as the Bolsheviks' policies in Ukraine, where government intervention in farming consistently led to humanitarian disasters.
- Discrediting Self-Sufficiency:
The globalised economic system, which makes it appear cheaper to source food from thousands of miles away rather than locally, actively discredits self-sufficiency. Conversely, instances where foreign corporations withdraw (e.g., McDonald's leaving Russia, potentially leading to locally sourced, cheaper alternatives) demonstrate how international trade can artificially inflate prices and undermine local economies.
Healthier Alternatives and Traditional Practices
To counteract the negative impacts of seed oils and processed foods, a return to traditional dietary practices and sustainable agriculture is advocated:
- Traditional Cooking Fats:
For cooking, particularly high-temperature frying, tallow (beef dripping), lard, butter, ghee, macadamia nut oil, and avocado oil are superior alternatives. These fats do not oxidise at high temperatures like polyunsaturated seed oils. While butter contains milk solids that can smoke at high temperatures, ghee (clarified butter) removes these solids, making it suitable for higher heat.
- Nutrient-Dense Foods:
Focus should be placed on fatty animal foods (meat, fish, eggs, offal), which provide essential fat-soluble vitamins (A, D, K2) crucial for growth, vitality, fertility, and brain health. Traditional cultures that prioritised these foods showed significantly better health outcomes.
- Balanced Diet and Lifestyle:
A healthy diet includes both fats and carbohydrates, but the quality and combination are key. Historically, healthy populations consumed appropriately prepared plant foods, including grains and tubers, alongside animal products. The overconsumption of highly refined, low-nutrient-density foods (white sugar, refined wheat flour, seed oils) displaces these healthier options.
- Local Food Production and Regenerative Agriculture:
Supporting locally produced foods and integrated farm systems that use animals (cows, sheep, goats, pigs, chickens, ducks) is vital. These systems employ techniques like regenerative agriculture and intensive grazing to improve soil quality and fertility naturally, reducing reliance on external chemical fertilisers and heavy machinery. This approach contributes to food security, environmental health, and the well-being of rural communities, counteracting the centralising and detrimental effects of industrial agriculture.