css msonormal,Prevent Outlook from butchering HTML emails with MsoNormal?

I'm seeing a very frustrating issue with how Outlook 2013 is rendering a simple HTML-based table in an email. It is being totally re-written to have extra line breaks, styling, white space and superfluous code. Is there a way to prevent this, or a workaround

method? Here is my test table code, about as simple as it gets:

Line 1

Line 2

On the receiving side, I look at the source code, and that table has been converted to this monstrosity:

Line 1

Line 2

It looks absolutely terrible when displayed in the email. From my understanding this issue is created by how MS incorrectly renders HTML emails using the horrendous MS Word HTML back-end instead of using a real web renderer. This is for an automated

alert email template for a task at my work, so changing mail providers is not an option, I am required to use MS Outlook and Exchange.