u/ClockWork1236

This quote:

>In the l940s, farmers attempted to use cheap coconut oil for fattening their animals, but they found that it made them lean, active and hungry. For a few years, an antithyroid drug was found to make the livestock get fat while eating less food, but then it was found to be a strong carcinogen, and it also probably produced hypothyroidism in the people who ate the meat. By the late l940s, it was found that the same antithyroid effect, causing animals to get fat without eating much food, could be achieved by using soy beans and corn as feed.

Seen here: Coconut Oil

And similarly:

>Coconut oil is the least fattening of all the oils. Pig farmers tried to use it to fatten their animals, but when it was added to the animal feed, coconut oil made the pigs lean [See Encycl. Brit. Book of the Year, 1946].

Seen here: Unsaturated Vegetable Oils: Toxic

It has widely circulated online and is repeated here on Reddit, on the forums, and by numerous short form "content creator" types on TikTok, Instagram, etc. but is never sourced outside of Ray's "citation" to the 1946 Encyclopedia Britannica Book of the Year which can be found here: 1946 Britannica Book Of The Year : Encyclopaedia Britannica Inc Chicago : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

However I have spent a good deal of time looking through it and cannot find anything relevant. Has anyone ever found the exact source of this anecdote?

This quote:

>In the l940s, farmers attempted to use cheap coconut oil for fattening their animals, but they found that it made them lean, active and hungry. For a few years, an antithyroid drug was found to make the livestock get fat while eating less food, but then it was found to be a strong carcinogen, and it also probably produced hypothyroidism in the people who ate the meat. By the late l940s, it was found that the same antithyroid effect, causing animals to get fat without eating much food, could be achieved by using soy beans and corn as feed.

Seen here: Coconut Oil

And similarly:

>Coconut oil is the least fattening of all the oils. Pig farmers tried to use it to fatten their animals, but when it was added to the animal feed, coconut oil made the pigs lean [See Encycl. Brit. Book of the Year, 1946].

Seen here: Unsaturated Vegetable Oils: Toxic

It has widely circulated online and is repeated here on Reddit, on the forums, and by numerous short form "content creator" types on TikTok, Instagram, etc. but is never sourced outside of Ray's "citation" to the 1946 Encyclopedia Britannica Book of the Year which can be found here: 1946 Britannica Book Of The Year : Encyclopaedia Britannica Inc Chicago : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

However I have spent a good deal of time looking through it and cannot find anything relevant. Has anyone ever found the exact source of this anecdote?

What’s the deal here? Can’t find too much information. I see you can rent the space and that in the past they’ve hosted Sunday night techno events. Is that a regular thing like Pearlz upstairs, open every weekend? Or only certain weeks.