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.
This hydrogenation process is how vegetable oil is turned into margarine. Hydrogenated fats have two major economic advantages over natural saturated fats. They are cheaper and they have a longer shelf life.