Oddbean

From the www. seed oils are highly susceptible to damage from the unsaturated bonds and they break down into toxic byproducts like HNE, acrolein and MDA when oxidized. These byproducts are linked to cancer, obesity, diabetes and Alzheimer disease

Most seed oils today are basically industrial lubricant. They are added to facilitate moving the rest of the stuff through machines. Don't eat industrial lube? Also, most of them contain high levels of glyphosphate so they are also cancerous.

Contains empty calories, the usual phytotoxins, and very little else. (All plants contain toxins, that is why we have livers). #unpopularOpinion, but if you're cross-country skiing across Antarctica, eat them, you need the calories. If you work an office job, you certainly don't, keep them to a minimum. Except rapeseed. Way too many toxins compared to alternatives, just avoid. Canola is usually GM which some of you hate but at least it doesn't have more than trace quantities of the erucic acid found in its rapeseed ancestors.

I'm not sure there's anything inherently "wrong" with them. More that the vast majority of people overconsume them, which upsets the balance of fatty acids within the body (too much omega 6 displacing omega 3), which in turn can create inflammation. Another issue is that they have a low smoke point, which means if you try to cook with them, unlike the animal fats, they'll oxidise at a much lower temperature, (possibly forming AGEs), and again, help to drive inflammation in the body. I would also question their ability to supply the same quantity and quality of the fat soluable soluble vitamins that the animal fats can supply. e.g. A, D, E & K. Personally, I think a little is OK. e.g. eating olives & olive oil, tahini, etc... (assuming it's not rancid, over heated, etc). But just as our ancestors did for generations, we're likely better off getting the bulk of our calories (and fat soluble vitamins) from nutrient dense animal fats. [An interesting observation is to note the rise in cancer cases, over the same time period that the propaganda has been most aggressive, in terms of the demonisation of animal fats, in conjunction with the extent to which most cancer patients tend to flag as deficient in the fat soluable vitamins....]