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You don't have to read much to note the absurdity.

"Vegetable Shortening, hydrogenated 586.4 g/Kg" - cruelty to animals.

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Oh dear, it just came to me that I had margarine in my childhood during WW2 and after because butter was limited. My wife remembers my mother saying to her in the 1960s - I hope you don't give him too much best butter.

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I was born in the mid-50s, and until around 2010 used margarine instead of butter. Lots of Crisco, too. It's a miracle I'm still alive ;)

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Yes, I remember it, Dalda in India, Trex in the UK.

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Those poor, poor rodents.

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It is actually worse than this. Any study that uses two diets that don't have the exact same base diet are not real science. In real science - we only change ONE variable. If you have two research diets - often from two companies - the base of the diet is not the same - thus multiple variables.

This is a failure even at high-school level science - high fat diets that have added sugar and no fat - (vegetable oils are not 'fat') - the rule is garbage studies - not science.

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