"Kraft boasts that people have eaten 450 billion Oreo cookies since they introduced the chocolate wafer sandwich cookies with a creamy filling in 1912. "


I like how Kraft (and other companies) keep repeating this. As if people having eaten 450 million Oroeo cookies since 1912 somehow makes them safe!

And the earlier poists were right: Oreos were originally made with lard and other cookies were either made with lard or coconut oil. There was a type of vegetable shortening available then, but it was made of lard and coconut oil--not partially hydrogenated vegetable oils which came later.

Another link to add is Dr. Mary Enig's site on Trans-Fats:

http://www.enig.com.