Butter vs. Margarine



I got a cute forwarded message in the email today about how margarine was the biggest disaster to hit the food chain since baby formula. The full text of the message was, interestingly, easily found at snopes.

Now, I'm hardly the biggest fan of margarine at all, and I have no doubt that in many ways butter is substantially healthier. I think that most of the anti-butter backlash was due to people trying to avoid fatty foods in any way possible. Also, when push comes to shove, butter really tastes a lot better and that is the primary consideration in much of my food consumption decisions at the moment.

But... that said, this was the funny line from the message:

And here is the most disturbing fact......

Margarine is but one molecule from being PLASTIC..... (This fact alone was enough to have me avoiding margarine for life and anything else that is hydrogenated, this means hydrogen is added changing the molecular structure of the food.)

Sheesh, what a crock. Water is but one molecule away from being bleach. Well, thats not totally true, water is but one atom away from being bleach, which I suspect is even "worse" according to the original author. This is why some science education needs to be mandatory in high school, otherwise people blindly believe any stupid thing they read.