Warns against
Calley Means on Industrial Seed Oils: warns against
Calley Means warns against industrial seed oils — canola, corn, cottonseed, soy, sunflower, safflower, grapeseed, and rice bran oils, sometimes dubbed “the Hateful Eight.” He says linoleic acid from these oils accumulates in the body and drives oxidative stress, and he devoted a full segment of his August 2024 Tucker Carlson interview to “Seed Oils and the Lies of the Food Pyramid.”
His stated reasoning: seed oils are chemically processed industrial products, not traditional foods; their linoleic acid builds up in human tissue over time; and the resulting oxidative stress is, he argues, a driver of metabolic disease. The position is one of the most recognizable planks of the MAHA food platform.
It is also one of the most directly contested. The American Heart Association’s April 2026 rival dietary guidance reaffirmed unsaturated fats (including seed-oil-derived fats) as preferable to saturated fat, putting the two camps in open scientific conflict. Means’s seed-oil warnings are recorded here as his attributed claims — contested claims, not settled science — under the site’s for-and-against policy.
What Means says
- Means warns against the eight industrial seed oils: canola, corn, cottonseed, soy, sunflower, safflower, grapeseed, and rice bran.
- He says linoleic acid from these oils accumulates in the body and drives oxidative stress.
- He devoted a full Tucker Carlson segment (Aug 2024) to “Seed Oils and the Lies of the Food Pyramid.”
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