Re: [Fwd: Canola Oil]

[Lynn Kinsky <lkinsky@silcom.com>]

>Something else on Canola Oil.
>--
>Lead, follow, or get the *#^@ out of the way!
>

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>I noticed that some folks use Canola oil.  I am forwarding this from
>my Wellpet list.  I have used Corn Oil, but now I'm even questioning
>that.  Any comments?  Gabrielle
>
>>>
>Canola oil, while high in monounsaturated fats, is highly processed,
>contains toxins and interferes with certain biological processes.
>Canola oil from the rape seed, referred to as the Canadian oil because
>Canada is mainly responsible for it being marketed in the USA

>Snip . . .


>The truth is however, that rape is the most toxic of all food oil
>plants.
>Not even insects will eat it. No wonder farmers like growing it. It
>turns
>out that rape is a member of the mustard family of plants, and is the
>source
>for the chemical-agent, mustard gas, which causes blistering on skin and
>lungs when inhaled. Mustard Gas was banned after WWI for this very
>reason. . .(snip)
--  owensall@sierranet.net

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Rape is the source of mustard gas?!  Give me a break!  Mustard gas is a
wholly synthetic compound that has no relation to real mustard other than
the fact that some people who were unfortunate to breathe it in its impure
form thought it smelled like mustard.  They also thought it smelled like
hay. (http://www.bristol.ac.uk/Depts/Chemistry/MOTM/mustard/mustard.htm)

As to the history of the "genetic engineering" of rapeseed oil producing
plants to produce the canola oil varieties, refer to
http://www.canola-council.org/manual/canvarys.htm.  You are right -- I
wouldn't want to put industrial oil (rapeseed oil) on my salad;  but I also
wouldn't want to eat a cob of Andean corn at a summer barbecue -- I'm glad
"genetic engineering" produced sweet corn.

I suspect many of the horrible symptoms described in your post resulted
from people using the wrong oil -- canola and rapeseed oils are not the
same!

Lynn Kinsky (Santa Ynez, CA)
http://www.silcom.com/~lkinsky
Cachuma River Romp NATRC Ride:   http://www.silcom.com/~lkinsky/Cachuma/



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