Lard is on my shopping list for the first time ever.
Use it all the time. Have for many, many years. Wife and I both eat eggs every morning, always cooked in a pan greased with lard. I'm 53, blood pressure is always around 120 over 80. Real fats like lard, real butter, etc are good in your diet if not in excess.
Absolutely. Many times healthier than vegetable oils. Until fairly recently in history, no one cooked with vegetable oil. In fact, other than olive oil, it wasn't even a thing.
Grain producers needed a way to get rid of their vegetable oils, which were a byproduct of processing vegetables and grains for consumption, so they hired "scientists" to perform studies blaming heart attacks on the use of animal fats in cooking and for spreading on toast, then offered to the public various "healthy" alternative to it. The medical establishment bought into this BS completely, and sales of lard, tallow, and butter plummeted. Folks switched over in mass to vegetable oils for cooking, and replaced butter with margarine.
