Or, save yer bacon grease, strain it an can it to
We prefer to do it that way. From pigs that are raised on a none GM corn.
Remember that lard in particular can carry some of the worst of GM affects.
The OP tickled a memory of something I read in one of my family journals.
It took me a day to find it but I have just finished reading it again. It's an Entry from post civil war 1873. Along with the carpet baggers came a lot of other less than desirables. The folks he spoke with represented proctor and gamble.
They were real keen on collecting all the cotton seed oil that the could. Especially on the cheap.
Proctor and gamble was initially experimenting with it to produce soap.
Cottonseed oil is cloudy red prior to processing. That came from the chemical known as gossypol that was in it, a toxic phytochemical that can cause infertility, organ damage and paralysis, etc.
After running it through a chemical process they discovered called hydrogenating, it took on a creamy white appearance that mimicked that of lard.
With that, Crisco was born, chuck full of transfatty acids. You know the stuff of heart disease, infertility, organ damage, cancers etc. P&G didn't know it at the time of course.
By 1911 they had secured enough supplies of cottonseed oil to open up a blitzkrieg marketing campaign for Crisco. Handing out free recipes, free donuts cooked in Crisco, etc.
By 1948 the health effects of it had come clearly into focus. P&G worked behind the scenes to bury that information. Up to and including putting off the negative health effects off on natural lard.
The hatchet job P&G did on natural lard was initiated by one Dr. Fred Mattson who was a scientist/MD employed by P&G. He was the guy that presented the US government’s inconclusive Lipid Research Clinics Trials to the public as proof that animal fats caused heart disease along with selling the same line of crap to the American Heart Association.
Centuries of cooking with natural lard almost died because of that.
Take note that when the legal hounds started nipping on their heels they sold off their crisco cash cow even though it was now made of hydronated soy beans.
That story was followed by several generations in our family. The above is a very brief collective of that information. Most of that information came out in different ways in different media, but the timeline is incorrect as it's not politically correct to say that the government allowed P&G to use the Southeast as Guinea pigs for that product.
Either way, there has never been a can of crisco in any home on that side of the family for those reasons. It's always been canned lard.
Now we have to worry about the GMO's being feed to corporate pigs. There are some links to the same kind of problems crisco generated that are beginning to surface from pigs on corporate farms feed GMO foods. No hard evidence that I've found so far, but all the same, we stay away from that to.
Some food for thought. No pun intended.
