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Default The darker side of duck fat

In article >, says...
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> On Mon, 19 Sep 2016 20:11:51 +1000, Bruce >
> wrote:
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> >About the health and animal welfare aspects of duck fat:
> >
> >
http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/heal...nutrition/the-
> >darker-side-of-duck-fat-20160918-grj5nw.html
> >
> >Or:
> >http://tinyurl.com/jy56hz9

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> <shrug>. All intensively farmed animals are treated poorly to some
> extent. The article says the treatment of ducks has been ignored, I
> know that isn't true because in Australia there has been a couple of
> major producers who have been penalised and absolutely caned when it
> comes to negative publicity.


Good, although I've never heard about it. I also didn't know ducks were
treated even worse than chickens.

> Rosemary Stanton is also very conservative when it comes to nutrition.


I guess it's the old "Is saturated fat bad for you or not" discussion
again.