Most of modern, mainstream economics based on neoclassical assumptions. Tends to ascribe inevitability, if not necessarily desirability, to market outcomes.
Omega-6 linoleic acid is the most abundant polyunsaturated fatty acid found in the Western diet. Itâs plentiful in safflower and commonly available partially hydrogenated sunflower oils, two common cooking and food oils in use today.
When hydrogenated oil is made, these healthy fats are converted into a new type of fatty acid, known as a trans fat. Trans fats are not at all good for one's health. In some highly hydrogenated oils like margarine, trans fats can make up almost half of the total fat content. fully hydrogenated fatty acid cannot have any double bonds, and hence becomes 'saturated' with hydrogen atoms. So it seems to me, that partially hydrogenated oils are the culprit. It pisses me off immensley that a label can say that it has no trans-fat, but partially hydrogenated oil is listed in the ingredients.