List of restaurants switching to beef tallow for fries: RFK Jr. says it's healthier, is it?

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58. If I recall correctly, they changed because of a lawsuit...

…McDonald’s never officially announced they used beef fat, but it was the “secret ingredient” that made their fries so loved in the ‘60s and ‘70s. The problem came when they got sued by a Hindu family who had been eating at McDonald’s for years and later found out that they had been consuming beef, which is forbidden according to their faith. The suit attracted lots of attention from the public, which had a very negative reaction to the revelation that what made the fries so tasty was beef fat. McDonald’s responded by switching to vegetable oil, accompanied by an imitation-beef flavoring that actually had no animal content.