Natural oils treated in this way are used in such products as shortening, oleomargarine, and soap. |
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Swift was also a leader in turning formerly unused parts of animals into by-products such as soap, glue, fertilizer, and oleomargarine. |
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Butterine manufacturers used neutral lard and oleo oil from packing plants to manufacture oleomargarine. |
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Then there was a store customer who, thinking he would save lots of money, ordered 25 pounds of oleomargarine from a mail-order house. |
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In the same year, the Oleomargarine Act required prominent labeling of colored oleomargarine, to distinguish it from butter. |
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In the meat-packing industry at the turn of the twentieth century, for example, by-products included glue, fertilizer, soap, and oleomargarine, to name a few. |
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Our distasteful story begins back in 1869, when a French chemist named Hippolyte Mege-Mouries invented an affordable butter substitute called oleomargarine. |
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