# Vegetable Oil Is Bad?

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**Tags:** food, health\
**Created:** [July 22, 2022, 4:45pm UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/vegetable-oil-is-bad/1435 "2022-07-22T16:45:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![Lebowski](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/user_avatar/discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/lebowski/32/47_2.png) [@Lebowski](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/u/Lebowski)\
**Post date:** [December 31, 2022, 7:42pm UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/vegetable-oil-is-bad/1435/16 "2022-12-31T19:42:34Z")

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> **[You Should Get In on Wesson's $3 Million False Advertising Settlement](https://lifehacker.com/you-should-get-in-on-wessons-3-million-false-advertisi-1849939170)**
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> What to know about the class-action lawsuit against the cooking oil brand.

I think this article is relevant to this thread and other discussions on CF on several levels:

- It’s a way some vegetable oil is alleged to be bad: I tentatively disagree with this though. I don’t think it being “natural” vs. having some GMO ingredients would make the vegetable oil a meaningfully better product. But I don’t know a ton - maybe there’s a reason I’m missing why GMO Vegetable Oil is worse than non-GMO Vegetable Oil.

- It’s a real example of a big food company allegedly committing fraud: I tentatively agree from what I know, which isn’t a ton, that ConAgra did commit fraud in this case. They advertised a thing which wasn’t true in an attempt to make their product look better and increase sales.

- As a practical matter, some readers here might be eligible and want to get in on the fraud settlement. I don’t think it’s worth doing, as I’ll explain below, but others may disagree and appreciate knowing about it.

- Most importantly, it’s a real example of how fraud enforcement against a big food company currently works. This example illuminated some additional problems with going after companies under existing fraud laws that I either wasn’t aware of or wasn’t aware of the scope:

As in my recent post(1), I also think these problems exist for reasons that would make solving them controversial. It’s easy and probably uncontroversial to think that the effective penalty for fraud should much larger and/or faster than this, that all victims should be compensated, that the victims should be compensated more and that the compensation should be net of their required efforts to obtain it - I think those things myself. But what changes to the legal system should be made to actually achieve those outcomes? I think those changes will be controversial.

(1) [Elliot Temple and Corentin Biteau Discussion - #116 by Lebowski](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/elliot-temple-and-corentin-biteau-discussion/1543/116)

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