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January 11, 2005
Before you buy your next bottle of cooking
oil... I think it's important that as many people as possible KNOW
about the
origins of this product. Then, if you choose to buy it, at
least you're
doing so with your eyes open.
RAPE IN A DIFFERENT GUISE
Dear Editors
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. 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 daughters 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. 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 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: www.askjeeves.com/ and type in
(Where does
Canola Oil come from?) and see what you come up with Frying,
