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Slate star codex has an article I found good at covering both side of whether high saturated fat is good or not: https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/03/10/for-then-

• im3w1l 6y ago
  He mentioned an interesting thing just in passing > But it also allows lots of other things with high saturated and low unsaturated fat. Red meat (but not chicken or pork; most chickens and pigs are fed high-PUFA feed that gives them high-PUFA meat) That the healthiness of meat depends on what the animals in turn ate. This seems an understudied thing. How are today's animals different from the ones great grandpa ate?
  • Quarrel 6y ago
    It also varies very much country to country. The US subsidises corn, so has a surfeit of corn, so they feed a lot of corn to animals. This gives US animals a different profile to say, Australian grass fed animals (although obviously Australia also sometimes finishes animals on grain, but it isn't corn much). All in all dietary studies are a total shit show of confounding variables even when done incredibly well. Then there are the thousands a year that are not done well, but if they have the right headline get coverage.