Does anybody still use it regular ? Does anybody buy into this nutritional movement that it's healthier than vegitable oils ? Or do you think its just an internet sensation because it's something that we want to believe .

I use it. I raise cattle and when we butcher we will render the fat down; it is a lost art. It will give a little bit different flavor but I love it!

I have read several times that when America switched to using vegetable fats in place of animal fats, the number of heart conditions rose considerably.

I don't think there is anything better for fries

It"s probably the secret to making authentic english fish and chips that West river rogue is posting about the Brita didnt abandon the use of animal fats as completely as we did .

Bigfoot, I just searched 'oil for authentic fish n chips' and you're right...either beef or pork

Lard has been proven to be healthier than all the plant oils except olive oil, which it is comparable with. Beef tallow is likely similar to lard.

Keith

A good rule of thumb is to not put anything into your body that you can't identify.just.by looking at it. In other words, eat simple foods. Veggies should look and taste like veggies, meat should look and taste like meat, fat should look and taste like fat, etc. Lard is just fat, pretty much straight from the meat, extracted from the other tissues by melting it's filtering out the other stuff, and letting it harden. Vegetable oils are processed garbage. They're extracted with solvents like hexane, they're not a "natural" food at all. Our ancestors survived on mostly animal fats, and didn't have all the health conditions we have now.
I use a lot of lard. I have a few gallons of pig fat on my freezer, I render it out as I need it.

Fry them in butter.
Deepfried in butter tastes great.You have to clarify the butter so it dont burn.

Yes and yes. Its all we use. For everything. I urge you to do a thorough research on vegetable or 'seed' oils. There are many doctors that think they are one of the worst things on the planet for your health. The subject is so broad that its hard to comment further. Maybe read some of the articles on here if you're interested.

https://www.paleomedicina.com/en

I talked to a dentist a few days ago from SC that at age 71 was diagnosed with cancer.He had been eating fairly low carb for a few years at that point. Anyway long story short, he did a consultation with the folks in Hungary above^^ and is still alive today and 74 years old. His last pet scan showed no cancer. He eats nothing but animal products. Fat meat ratio of 2-1. Pretty good considering the cancer clinic gave him 3-months to live. He is a tough guy and it was a tough road for him. His bones got brittle from the cancer and at one point both femurs and an arm was broken. That same thing happened to my mother but she didnt pull through. Sorry for the long winded answer but Im passionate about the subject because I know what switching to a diet of almost 100% animal products can do, and I think because they said animal fat was bad for so long that most people can improve their health substantially by adding it back in.

This thread is going great so far this exactly the discusion I was looking for when i started it i like the personel expirences and share your passion Yukon 254

Excellent post. Especially the part about our ancestors. We buy lots of beef fat. Then we render it down in a dutch oven and I take the cracklins for lunch.

I rendered down the tallow from the last cow we butchered. I have used it yet.

I thought fat is from under the skin next to the flesh
And tallow is from the organs.
I like pork lard for cooking

Tallow is rendered beef fat, lard is rendered pig fat. The best fat in any critter is the fat that surrounds the kidneys "leaf" lard or tallow). But, it's all good for rendering. The leaf fat is more neutral in flavor and has the best consistency,and is the brightest white when rendered, so if you're rendering fat for baking and you want the best, that's what you'd use. The lacy fat around the internal organs (caul fat) is sometimes used to wrap dry cuts of meat when roasting.

Interesting info, loosegoose.

Lard or Crisco. Which is the most unhealthy? Polyunsaturated veggie oil is probably less harmful.

Crisco is hydrogenated vegetable oil.... hydrogenation is the process used to make what would normally be a liquid fat at room temperature into a solid fat at room temperature. It's full of trans fats, even if the label says zero trans fats. It's just a marketing trick. The FDA allows a company to say zero trans fats if there's less than half a gram per serving. So the company just has to make the serving size small enough.

How do you pick wich scientist to believe in ? A growing portion of modern nutritionist are saying vegitable oil is not natural and is what is killing us . They make a convincing argument , effortlessly poking holes in the studies that say meat ( meat fat )is bad . Much of the science that says meat is bad came from the same era of the healthy cigarette. And was heavily financed by the maker of crisco and margarine . And other processed vegitable oil

Lots of restaurants use this I am told

Bigfoot, you bring up a good point about which scientists to believe. This is the conclusion Ive come to after two years of hard research. First off they started telling people animal fat/meat was bad about 40-years ago. Since that time America has gotten fatter and sicker. Thats easy to see. In the US heart disease is the #1 killer. In Canada heart disease is the #2 killer. Cancer is #1. The problem is the standard American diet. Sugar and processed foods. Once you get into it and do enough research you find out that inflammation is the real driver behind almost every chronic illness out there. Including heart disease and cancer. Sugar and refined carbs are very inflammatory. When you cut those out of your diet, you will be amazed at how much better you feel.

Do a search on youtube about low carb or carnivore.There are to many doctors to count that are now using these diets to fix a whole host of things. Way back in the 30s they were using high fat / low carb to cure epilepsy. No money in it though so now mainstream doctors use drugs. My doctor told me that without drugs i would be in a wheelchair in 10-years. Two years in and she doesnt say that anymore because I have zero symptoms and my blood work is normal.

Another thing to look into is vitamin D. I wont get into that, but Im a firm believer that most people have levels that are way low. I take 25,000 IU every day along with 200mcg of K2.