Canola oil
john
Research submitted by Chas
Any one know anything about this?
Canola Oil dangers
Recently I bought a cooking oil that's new to our supermarkets, Canola Oil.
I tried it because the label assured me it was lowest in "bad" fats.
However, when I had used half the bottle, I concluded that the label told me
surprisingly little else and I started to wonder: Where does canola oil come
from?
Olive oil comes from olives, peanut oil from peanuts, sunflower oil from
sunflowers; but what is a canola? There was nothing on the label to
enlighten me, which I thought odd. So, I did some investigating on the
Internet. There are plenty of official Canola sites lauding this new
"wonder" oil with all its low-fat health benefits. It takes a little longer
to find sites that tell the less palatable details. Here are just a few
facts everyone should know before buying anything containing canola.
Canola is not the name of a natural plant but a made-up word, from the words
"Canada" and "oil". Canola is a genetically engineered plant developed in
Canada from the Rapeseed Plant, which is part of the mustard family of
plants.
According to AgriAlternatives, The Online Innovation, and Technology
Magazine for Farmers, "By nature, these rapeseed oils, which have long been
used to produce oils for industrial purposes, are... toxic to humans and
other animals". (This, by the way, is one of the websites singing the
praises of the new canola industry.)
Rapeseed oil is poisonous to living things and is an excellent insect
repellent. I have been using it (in very diluted form, as per instructions)
to kill the aphids on my roses for the last two years. It works very well;
it suffocates them. Ask for it at your nursery. Rape is an oil that is used
as a lubricant, fuel, soap and synthetic rubber base and as a illuminate for
color pages in magazines. It is an industrial oil. It is not a food. Rape
oil, it seems, causes emphysema, respiratory distress, anemia, constipation,
irritability, and blindness in animals and humans. Rape oil was widely used
in animal feeds in England and Europe between 1986 and 1991, when it was
thrown out.
Remember the "Mad Cow disease" scare, when millions of cattle in the UK were
slaughtered in case of infecting humans? Cattle were being fed on a mixture
containing material from dead sheep, and sheep suffer from a disease called
"scrapie". . It was thought this was how "Mad Cow" began and started to
infiltrate the human chain. What is interesting is that when rape oil was
removed from animal feed, 'scrapie' disappeared. We also haven't seen any
further reports of "Mad Cow" since rape oil was removed from the feed.
Perhaps not scientifically proven, but interesting all the same.
US and Canadian farmers grow genetically engineered rapeseed and
manufacturers use its oil (canola) in thousands of processed foods, with the
blessings of Canadian and US government watchdog agencies. The canola
supporting websites say that canola is safe to use. They admit it was
developed from the rapeseed, but insist that through genetic engineering it
is no longer rapeseed, but "canola" instead. Except canola means "Canadian
oil"; and the plant is still a rape plant, albeit genetically modified. The
new name provides perfect cover for commercial interests wanting to make
millions. Look at the ingredients list on labels. Apparently peanut oil is
being replaced with rape oil.
You'll find it in an alarming number of processed foods. There's more, but
to conclude: rape oil was the source of the chemical warfare agent mustard
gas, which was banned after blistering the lungs and skins of hundred of
thousands of soldiers and civilians during W.W.I. Recent French reports
indicate that it was again in use during the Gulf War. Check products for
ingredients. If the label says, "may contain the following" and lists canola
oil, you know it contains canola oil because it is the cheapest oil and the
Canadian government subsidizes it to industries involved in food processing.
I don't know what you'll be cooking with tonight, but I'll be using olive
oil and old-fashioned butter, from a genetically unmodified cow. Here is
more information.......... Canola oil from the rape seed, referred to as the
Canadian oil because Canada is mainly responsible for it being marketed in
the USA.
The Canadian government and industry paid our Federal Food and Drug
Administration (FDA). $50 million dollars to have canola oil placed on the
(GRAS) List "Generally Recognized As Safe" . Thus a new industry was
created. Laws were enacted affecting international trade, commerce, and
traditional diets.
Studies with lab. animals were disastrous. Rats developed fatty degeneration
of heart, kidney, adrenals, and thyroid gland. When canola oil was withdrawn
from their diets, the deposits dissolved but scar tissue remained on all
vital organs. No studies on humans were made before money was spent to
promote Canola oil in the USA. Adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD) is a rare fatal
degenerative disease caused by a build up long-chain fatty acids (c22 to
c28) which destroys the myelin (protective sheath) of the nerves. Canola oil
is a very long chain fatty acid oil (c22).
Those who will defend canola oil say that the Chinese and Indians have used
it for centuries with no effect, however it was in an unrefined form.
(*taken from FATS THAT HEAL AND FATS THAT KILL by Udo Erasmus.)
My cholesterol level was 150. After a year using Canola oil I tested 260. I
switched back to pure olive oil and it has taken 5 years to get it down to
160.
Thus began this project to find answers since most Doctors will say that
Canola oil is O.K.
My sister spilled Canola oil on a piece of fabric, after 5 pre-treatings and
harsh washings, the oil spot still showed. She stopped using Canola oil
,wondering what it did to our insides if it could not be removed from cloth
easily.
Our father bred birds, always checking labels to insure there was no rape
seed in their food. He said, "The birds will eat it, but they do not live
very long."
A friend, who worked for only 9 mo. as a quality control taster at an
apple-chip factory where Canola oil was used exclusively for frying,
developed numerous health problems. These included loose teeth & gum
disease; numb hands and feet; swollen arms and legs upon rising in the
morning; extreme joint pain especially in hands, cloudy vision, constipation
with stools like black marbles, hearing loss; skin tears from being bumped;
lack of energy; hair loss and heart pains. It has been five years since she
has worked there and still has some joint pain, gum disease, and numbness. A
fellow worker, about 30 years old, who ate very little product, had a
routine check up and found that his blood vessels were like those of an 80
year old man. Two employees fed the waste product to baby calves and their
hair fell out. (Whose hair is this referring to- the employees or the
calves?) After removing the fried apple chips from the diet their hair grew
back in.
My daughter and her girls were telling jokes. Stephanie hit her mom's arm
with the back of a butter knife in a gesture, "Oh mom" not hard enough to
hurt. My daughter's arm split open like it was rotten. She called me to ask
what could have caused it. I said, "I'll bet anything that you are using
Canola oil". Sure enough, there was a big gallon jug in the pantry. Rape
seed oil is a penetrating oil, to be used in light industry, not for human
consumption. It contains a toxic substance. (from encyclopedia) Even after
the processing to reduce the erucic acid content, it is still a penetrating
oil. We have found that it turns rancid very fast. Also it leaves a residual
rancid odor on clothing. Rape seed oil used for stir-frying in China was
found to emit cancer causing chemicals. (Rapeseed oil smoke causes lung
cancer) Amal Kumar Maj. The Wall Street JournaL June 7, 1995 pB6(W) pB6 (E)
col 1(11 col in). Compiled by Darleen Bradley.
Canola oil is a health hazard to use as a cooking oil or salad oil. It is
not the healthy oil we thought it was. It is not fit for human consumption,
do not eat canola oil, it can hurt you. Polyunsaturated or not, this is a
bad oil. Be Sure to also read this informative report written by leading
health expert Tom Valentine, Canola Oil Report.
Go to Ask Jeeves yourself: http://www.askjeeves.com/ and type in "Where does
Canola Oil come from?" and see what you come up with.
Michael Sierchio
> Canola Oil dangers
> According to AgriAlternatives, The Online Innovation, and Technology
> Magazine for Farmers, "By nature, these rapeseed oils, which have long been
> used to produce oils for industrial purposes, are... toxic to humans and
> other animals". (This, by the way, is one of the websites singing the
> praises of the new canola industry.)
This post is utter nonsense. Canola oil is produced from a cultivated
hybrid, not a genetically modified organism. The product is
different from rapeseed oil in that it does not contain erucic
acid in significant amounts. Yes, rapeseed oil is not fit
for consumption and Canola oil is. Do the math.
PS We eat, we shit, we die -- have a little fun.
john
"Michael Sierchio" <ku...@tenebras.com> wrote in message
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Tsu Dho Nimh
>Research submitted by Chas
http://urbanlegends.about.com/science/urbanlegends/library/blcanola.htm
http://urbanlegends.about.com/science/urbanlegends/library/blcanola2.htm
http://urbanlegends.about.com/science/urbanlegends/library/blcanola3.htm
Seem to nicely debunk this "research".
>My sister spilled Canola oil on a piece of fabric, after 5 pre-treatings and
>harsh washings, the oil spot still showed. She stopped using Canola oil
>,wondering what it did to our insides if it could not be removed from cloth
>easily.
So your insides are made of polyester? Or you regularly uise a
detergent pretreatment on your intestines?
>My daughter and her girls were telling jokes. Stephanie hit her mom's arm
>with the back of a butter knife in a gesture, "Oh mom" not hard enough to
>hurt. My daughter's arm split open like it was rotten. She called me to ask
>what could have caused it. I said, "I'll bet anything that you are using
>Canola oil". Sure enough, there was a big gallon jug in the pantry.
OH COME ON!!!!! This boggles the mind that anyone could
possible believe this anecdote.
>rancid odor on clothing. Rape seed oil used for stir-frying in China was
>found to emit cancer causing chemicals. (Rapeseed oil smoke causes lung
>cancer) Amal Kumar Maj. The Wall Street JournaL June 7, 1995 pB6(W) pB6 (E)
>col 1(11 col in). Compiled by Darleen Bradley.
YUP ... unrefined and at a higher temperature than recommended
(hint, your WOK shouldn't be producing black smoke).
>According to AgriAlternatives, The Online Innovation, and Technology
>Magazine for Farmers, "By nature, these rapeseed oils, which have long been
>used to produce oils for industrial purposes, are... toxic to humans and
>other animals". (This, by the way, is one of the websites singing the
>praises of the new canola industry.)
So is unrefined cottonseed oil, linseed oil (which is used as a
paint ingredient), castor-bean oil, and probably others. Canola
was deliberately bred to have extremely low levels of the
substances that are harmful.
>Rapeseed oil is poisonous to living things and is an excellent insect
>repellent. I have been using it (in very diluted form, as per instructions)
>to kill the aphids on my roses for the last two years. It works very well;
>it suffocates them.
NEWS FLASH! All you have to do is use ANY vegetable oil with a
bit of soap and alcohol (one tablespoonful of oil, 1/4 teaspoon
of dishewashing detergent, and a quart of water) ... even olive
oil and corn oil will work.
>Ask for it at your nursery. Rape is an oil that is used
>as a lubricant, fuel, soap and synthetic rubber base and as a illuminate for
>color pages in magazines. It is an industrial oil. It is not a food.
Odd, it was used as a food by the Vikings, along with flax-seed
oil and hemp-seed oils, both of which are also used for
industrial purposes. Come to think of it, almost any oil is used
for "industrial purposes". Even butter is an industrial oil ...
the source of glycerine to make notroglycerine from.
>Rape oil, it seems, causes emphysema, respiratory distress, anemia, constipation,
>irritability, and blindness in animals and humans. Rape oil was widely used
>in animal feeds in England and Europe between 1986 and 1991, when it was
>thrown out.
Kindly cite a few references for this. It appears that
rapeseed MEAL was named as one of the REPLACEMENTS for the
meatmeal that would no longer be used. The meal is still in use.
>Remember the "Mad Cow disease" scare, when millions of cattle in the UK were
>slaughtered in case of infecting humans? Cattle were being fed on a mixture
>containing material from dead sheep, and sheep suffer from a disease called
>"scrapie". . It was thought this was how "Mad Cow" began and started to
>infiltrate the human chain. What is interesting is that when rape oil was
>removed from animal feed, 'scrapie' disappeared. We also haven't seen any
>further reports of "Mad Cow" since rape oil was removed from the feed.
>Perhaps not scientifically proven, but interesting all the same.
YOU have not shown it WAS removed from the food chain.
Rapeseed meal has been known to lower fertility in male animals
since the late 1950s (as does cottonseed meal).
>Studies with lab. animals were disastrous. Rats developed fatty
>degeneration of heart, kidney, adrenals, and thyroid gland. When
>canola oil was withdrawn from their diets, the deposits dissolved
>but scar tissue remained on all vital organs.
Rats do not do well on a high-fat diet ... any cooking oil will
have the same results on them. Even olive oil.
>US and Canadian farmers grow genetically engineered rapeseed and
>manufacturers use its oil (canola) in thousands of processed foods, with the
>blessings of Canadian and US government watchdog agencies. The canola
>supporting websites say that canola is safe to use. They admit it was
>developed from the rapeseed, but insist that through genetic engineering it
>is no longer rapeseed, but "canola" instead.
ANY rapeseed that can fit the chemical limits for those teo
compounds can be called "canola", even the stuff from Argentina.
As I stated before, the variety was developed the SLOW way, by
selective breeding of the plants. Only recently have they begun
alering some traits with genetic engineering, mostly to make them
resistant to weed-control herbicides.
>You'll find it in an alarming number of processed foods. There's more, but
>to conclude: rape oil was the source of the chemical warfare agent mustard
>gas, which was banned after blistering the lungs and skins of hundred of
>thousands of soldiers and civilians during W.W.I.
WRONG! Mustard gas or Bis(2-chloroethyl)sulfide is made by
treating ethylene with sulfur chloride or dihydroxyethyl sulfide
with HCl gas. It was dubbed "mustard" gas because in extremely
dilute quantities it smells like mustard
Not a canola in sight on the production line for mustard gas.
You probably thing the herb valerian is used to make Valium, and
lord knows where you think hot dogs come from.
>I don't know what you'll be cooking with tonight, but I'll be using olive
>oil and old-fashioned butter, from a genetically unmodified cow.
Going to have any turnip greens? Collards? Kale? Cabbage?
Broccoli? Mustard greens? Being a member of the Brassica genus,
rapeseed/canola is closely related to mustards and vegetable
crops such as cabbage, turnip, kale, collards, cauliflower and
broccoli.
And don't forget that butter is one of the raw materials for
nitroglycerine. Aren't you afraid you might explode?
Thanks for the laugh!
Tsu Dho Nimh
If we are what we eat, I'm fast, cheap and easy
D. C. Sessions
> Not a canola in sight on the production line for mustard gas.
> You probably thing the herb valerian is used to make Valium, and
> lord knows where you think hot dogs come from.
Well, even Scudamore might have a hard time exaggerating hot dogs.
--
| I'm old enough that I don't have to pretend to be grown up.|
+----------- D. C. Sessions <d...@lumbercartel.com> ----------+
D. C. Sessions
of Canola, I thought this should be crossposted. So sue me.
john scudamore wrote:
Mark Probert
<wh...@whaleto.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
>http://www.whale.to/m/canola.html
Notice: The whale.to site is a parody of a medical site. IOW, do the
opposite.
Larry Bickford
Michael Sierchio <ku...@tenebras.com> wrote:
But what they dont tell you is that the microscopic amounts of erucic
acid that does remain in Canola oil reacts systemically with certain of
the preservatives used in vaccines and is suspected of causing autism in
certain individuals, especially children who were born in areas where
there original rape plant is grown and who have previously eaten oatmeal
raisin cookies make with Canola oil.
There is plenty of evidence to support this, as well as the deeply
hidden Canadian conspiracy to poison their southern neighbors with toxic
cooking oil so that, in a few more decades, they'll be able to take over
the USA and move south to a warmer climate.
---Larry
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Tsu Dho Nimh wrote in message ...
>"john" <wh...@whaleto.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>Research submitted by Chas
>
>http://urbanlegends.about.com/science/urbanlegends/library/blcanola.htm
>http://urbanlegends.about.com/science/urbanlegends/library/blcanola2.htm
>http://urbanlegends.about.com/science/urbanlegends/library/blcanola3.htm
>
>http://www.canola.ab.ca/
>
>Seem to nicely debunk this "research".
>
>
>>My sister spilled Canola oil on a piece of fabric, after 5 pre-treatings
and
>>harsh washings, the oil spot still showed. She stopped using Canola oil
>>,wondering what it did to our insides if it could not be removed from
cloth
>>easily.
COMMENT
Probably the same thing as it does to the cloth. Luckily for you, your
insides slough their lining every couple of days, and the molecules
which are permanently bonded to them by free radical chemistry go
with. It's better than Spray 'n Wash and no doubt it has a lot to do
with keeping us mammals alive so long, while we eat polyunsaturates
and gulp air the whole time.
Yes, linolenic acid in rapeseed, linseed, and canola has a lot to do with
its interesting chemistry. Paint thinners for oil based paints are mostly
linseed, and these oils are called "drying oils" because their free radical
chemistry is what makes the paints "dry." This is not a process of losing
water, as with latexes. Rather, the hardening is an oxygen-driven
free-radical
cascade chain-reaction vinyl polymerization. It goes faster in the omega 3's
oils because they have a double bond out there near the periphery of the
molecule,
hanging out there in the breeze, so to speak, where any other molecule
with an unpaired electron can latch onto the pi cloud. And then off you go.
These
things go rancid. They polymerize to gunk. They give off toxic stuff that
yellows
photographs in the vicinity, for months. They heat up enough to cause
spontaneous combustion!
However, it's hard to prove that any of this does much to your body, with
the possible exception of your gut epithelium, which may be stimulated
to form polyps and cancers a little more often under free radical attack. In
the
rest of you, if you eat enough vitamin E, you stop this cascade before it
does
much. It's hard to even measure it without some very careful chemistry, and
in
animals which have been shorted in several key defense systems. Megadosing
mammals with vitamin E does not make them live any longer, nor does giving
them fewer polyunsaturates. Nor does giving them MORE polyunsaturates kill
them faster, all other things being roughly in good shape. Not too many
answers
there.
>>Ask for it at your nursery. Rape is an oil that is used
>>as a lubricant, fuel, soap and synthetic rubber base and as a illuminate
for
>>color pages in magazines. It is an industrial oil. It is not a food.
>
> Odd, it was used as a food by the Vikings, along with flax-seed
>oil and hemp-seed oils, both of which are also used for
>industrial purposes.
I've heard it on good authority that the Vikings were big on rape -).
In Europe, colza oil has been used for a long time without too many
problems. If rapeseed oil is cardiotoxic, it's not due to the same
properties
that make it go rancid, but rather due to the erucic acid, as has been
noted.
But even that influence is hard to find epidemiologically.
SBH
M. Struik
<larr...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>There is plenty of evidence to support this, as well as the deeply
>hidden Canadian conspiracy to poison their southern neighbors with toxic
>cooking oil so that, in a few more decades, they'll be able to take over
>the USA and move south to a warmer climate.
If this was true Larry then why do they sell the same stuff here in
Canada. Time to visit your doctor and inform him your delusions are
getting in the way of reality.
Peter Bowditch
>I don't know what you'll be cooking with tonight, but I'll be using olive
>oil and old-fashioned butter, from a genetically unmodified cow.
Please tell me where I can see a natural (or even feral) dairy cow.
They are probably the most genetically-modified organisms you are ever
likely to come across. If Lamarkism were true, dairy cows would be
born with holes for ear tags.
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Beverly Erlebacher
It's not even a hybrid, it's just plain selective breeding for strains
with low erucic acid content. Erucic acid isn't even all that toxic -
it's found in a lot of nutritious cabbage family plants, notably
arugula (rocket), Eruca sativa. Rapeseed has long been added to bird
feeds as a source of protein and high quality oil.
Rapeseed has been grown for centuries if not millenia in China where it
was first domesticated as a green vegetable and a source of oil for
both cooking and oil lamps. Modern canola derives from strains already
selected for low erucic acid content by farmers over the centuries.
Erucic acid gives the oil a bitter taste, so there was motivation to
select against it long before it was identified or noted to have any
toxicity.
Rape was renamed canola not just to make it easier to sell to
consumers, but because even the farmers felt uncomfortable with the
word rape. It is also called colza. As a cold resistant member of the
cabbage family it's a good crop for areas like the Canadian prairies
and northern Europe that are too cool in summer or have too short a
frost-free season to grow soybeans.
Mark Probert
wrote:
Thanks for a knowledgeable post. I was following this thread and just
assuming that John was being John. Now I know I was correct.
David Wright
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Tsu Dho Nimh
>"john" <wh...@whaleto.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>I don't know what you'll be cooking with tonight, but I'll be using olive
>>oil and old-fashioned butter, from a genetically unmodified cow.
>
>Please tell me where I can see a natural (or even feral) dairy cow.
I want to see someone MILK a feral dairy cow. :)