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How about avocado and peanut oil?

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@dik, Looks like hexane (major component of straight run gasoline) is used for peanut and avocado oil extraction too, from what I see on google.
Apparently there was a fire at this Decatur plant some 10days prior to this explosion.
 
Hexane has caused events repeatedly a spectacular one occurred in Louisville KY
Louisville sewer explosions February 13, 1981

You will like the solvents used to decafinate coffee even less.
In 1975 one of the most widely used solvents, trichloroethylene, That was followed by Methylene Chloride, more recently ethyl acetate. was introduced.
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I don't drink decalf... I think of it as an aborted cow...

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So strange to see the singularity approaching while the entire planet is rapidly turning into a hellscape. -John Coates

-Dik
 
Just look at WW2 USA factory photo's, Lard and Beef Tallow were the oils of choice then. All thin healthy looking workers.
Low cancer rates etc etc.
 
dik said:
I don't drink decalf... I think of it as an aborted cow...

I think we should abort calves for consumption. It saves the inhumanity of slaughter and you still get the same protein.
 
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