NextLevel, the biochemistry is what it is. Sat fat does what it does. Your body doesn't care where a molecule came from. If it's the right shape and size, it's going to activate what it's going to activate. Nutrition is complicated stuff.
Low carb diets work and low fat diets work, for weight loss and for health. As idiotic as the Atkins diet looks on paper, the thing works. For starters, both low-fat and low-carb diets tend to be low calorie overall. Then there's the glycerol backbone (from carbs) required to make TG with the FAs from fat... need both to put on weight. Then there's the whole story adipokines from excess fat storage (carbs or fats can do this), resulting inflammation, etc. You lose weight, that all goes down. Plus, low on sugar means low on insulin. Low insulin means no storing fat, no glucagon from the crash, no concentration on putting on central adipose (the bad kind).
Der, I agree with you on the factory farming. Interestingly, where I'm from, there's some cool research indicating that many of the health problems that come with red meat don't apply (but we have out own share of health problems, don't you worry haha). Researchers were thinking it might be because a lot of our meat is wild game. Sat fat and cholesterol are bad either way, though, for most of us in the western world. It's just that there tends to be less, and way less of the other nasty stuff we shouldn't be eating.