Long before cheap, processed oils lined supermarket shelves, people cooked with fats that came from the land and animals: mainly tallow, lard, butter, olive oil, and ghee.

From the beginning, humankind was meant to live in harmony with the soil. Scripture calls it “the dust of the ground” from which life itself was formed. But today, that same soil is saturated with chemicals that were never part of nature's design.

Not long ago, pollution meant smog-filled skies or chemical runoff in rivers. Today, one of the most dangerous forms of pollution is invisible to the naked eye, yet it’s finding its way into nearly everything we eat, drink, wear, and breathe.