Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on beef tallow, butter, and lard for cooking: recommends

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says Americans are “being unknowingly poisoned” by seed oils and that “we’d all be better off cooking with solid fats such as tallow, butter, and lard,” per reporting on his Instagram and X posts from October–November 2024 (via ASEAN Now). In a Thanksgiving video, he deep-fried a turkey in beef tallow, saying: “This is how we cook the MAHA way.”

Kennedy’s stated reasoning is that seed oils — canola, corn, sunflower, soybean — are a driver of the obesity epidemic, while traditional animal fats are the historically normal cooking fats. The new Dietary Guidelines list tallow and butter as acceptable options, per diningandcooking.com’s coverage. (No medical advice is given here; Kennedy’s claims about health effects of seed oils are contested by mainstream nutrition research.)

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