okies recently i received an email ab0ut butter & margarine..
& since my sis is baking wif her bf n0w,i decided 2 research ab0ut the truth ab0ut margarine being one molecule away from plastic [which is seriously disgusting s0unding]

so!!

the simple answer is NO!

It is not true that margarine is "but ONE MOLECULE from being PLASTIC," and, even if it was, this doesn't mean that eating margarine is like eating plastic (though some would argue it tastes like it). Many items in nature are chemically similar to one another, but that doesn't make them similar in appearance or effect. It's not the molecules that a substance is made of that defines it, but rather how those molecules are arranged.
[gotten from the website http://www.breakthechain.org/exclusives/margarine.html]

So, I am not sure where the rest of the information that you quote in
the message comes from. But the question of whether or not, "margarine is
but one molecule away from being plastic." is the equivalent of asking
whether or not corn oil or soy bean oil or peanut oil is "one molecule"
away from being plastic. Yes, if you were very persistent, you could
likely find a way to polymerize the double bonds - the "unsaturation" -
of the fatty acids in the margarine and in so doing make a long chain
polymeric substance that would be similar to other polymers. But "one
molecule away" implies that margarine is "essentially plastic" and this
is far from the truth. Margarine is not "plastic" and making it so would
be difficult.
Margarine does contains more double bonds than butter. This is a
good thing. It makes margarine easier to digest and better for our diet.
But if we are using the criteria that the presence of unsaturation could
be used to form a polymeric substance, then the same thing could be said
about butter or the trans and cis fatty acids in you.
[gotten from the website http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/2004-01/1074274923.Ch.r.html]

you need to consider the molecules that make up a plastic. What you want to look for is not just the same molecules, but how they are arranged together. If you do some research on that subject, you will see that butter and margarine are very similar. They are just arranged differently. So if you say margarine is one molecule away from being a plastic, than butter would be to. Since we know that isn't true we can discount that statement.
[gotten from website http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/620923/is_margarine_one_molecule_away_from.html]

& ab0ut margarine lasting longer & not spoiling at all,
butter does eventually spoil while margarine lasts a long time. The letter states that margarine is like plastic in that you can leave it in a garage and not even a single fly will land on it. The truth is that margarine doesn't spoil easily because it is made out of vegetable oils that are less susceptible to bacteria and fungi that you would normally find in dairy products such as butter.
[also taken from website http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/620923/is_margarine_one_molecule_away_from.html]



SEE?! i shouldn't juz g0 ar0und telling this,c0z i t0ld my sis,den i w0nder,den i went 2 research ab0ut it
so i sh0uldnt anyh0w say sehh

but seri0usly it did sound very real sia!! & they seemed very sure of themselves in the email

oh well(:


& i shall poke ar0und the kitchen soon,2 see wad's g0ing on wif the baking=D
dumb machine to0k over my job=(
i used 2 be the 1 beating everything 2gether etc
den my sis f0und the beater or wadn0ts
but anyway it certainly al0t better den me la^^
but its fun 2 beat everything 2gether=D