Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., didn't popularize the Thanksgiving tradition of deep frying turkeys in vats of oil, but he has certainly added a dose of controversy to the seasonal golden-brown dish by claiming it's healthier to fry whole birds in beef tallow instead of seed oils.

This isn't the first time Kennedy has raged against seed oils. Even before being named as the U.S. Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services during the second Trump administration, he claimed that seed oils were the underlying cause for the obesity epidemic around the nation on Instagram .

( Let's fact-check RFK Jr.'s most controversial claims about seed oils being bad for you .)

But is crisping your turkey in tallow really going to benefit you more than, say, choosing a plant-based oil that comes f

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