> Anyway, if you care at all about the environment, avoid these two foods, and go in for more healthy foods like suet, marrow. olive-oil etc. which are, at the very least, comparably environmentally-friendly(and Palaeo).
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> Geoff

Geoff;

For the people that do some cooking, what do you reccomend be used if
someone does not want to add more animal fat to a particular dish?  I
belive that olive oil suffers from damage when exposed to heat that
can cause free radical damage  (I hope I said that correctly).

For example, If I am making say a chicken and vegetable dish, I might
want to add some more fat to the frying pan in a fairly flavor neutral
form.  Lard just has too strong of a flavor to add to something like
chicken stirfry in my personal opinion.

Don't get me wrong, I do think that in most cases that animal fats are
likely the very best source of fat, espically from pastured animals.

But in cases when you don't want to use animal fats due to taste; do
you think that olive oil is approiate if it is going to be heated?

I was looking at the site for a place that said there coconut oil was
from small family farms, from which one would presume the supply of
oil is sustainable.

I applogize for my expended question.  However, I suspect that a
number of people here do still fry some foods and may run into a
situation like the one I described above where they are looking to add
a bit of oil to a dish.

I do understand that coconut oil is not strictly paleo.  It is my
understanding that if you simply physically mash / smash up a coconut
that the resulting "juice" will naturally seperate leaving you with
the coconut oil ready to be used without any processing.  But I may
have been misinformed and this may be a overly simplistic view of the
process.

Thank for your help.

Jamie