Compiled by Darleen
Bradley
Recently I bought a
cooking oil that is 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 Agri
Alternatives, 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 have not 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 will find it in an alarming number of processed foods. There is 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 do not know what you will be cooking with tonight, but I will 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 of 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 months
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 n
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, (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 found to emit cancer causing
chemicals. (Rapeseed oil smoke causes lung cancer) A K Maj.
The Wall Street Journal June 7, 1995 pB6 (W) pB6 (E) col
1(11 col in).
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.
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4 comments:
Wow, I knew canola oil wasn't good for you, but I didn't know it was this bad.
Coincidentally, I accidentally picked up peanut butter, the kind that doesn't separate, when I meant to buy the natural kind with the oil on the top.
I checked the ingredients and one of them was rapeseed oil and hydrogenated oil (may have been the rapeseed oil) and sugar, none of which our found in my natural peanut butter. Upon making the exchange, it costs me just 40 cents more for the natural peanut butter... Sure am glad I wasn't lazy about it and kept the cheaper peanut butter....
Also, month's ago... Bought what was a newer salad dressing which I later realized had canola oil in it and stopped buying it right away. It's vinegar and olive oil for me. I've even read somewhere that you must beware of vinegar and that can be made artificially! Buy the tried and true, better products and watch those labels (obviously, if manufactured vinegar exists, some labels are also deceptive).
Oh, puh-leeeeease.
Who the heck is Darleen Bradley and why on earth would you believe anything she says? Especially when she doesn't bother to provide any references to reputable sources to support any of her crap?
And crap it is.
In fact, this is a well-known internet hoax.
http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/408/16307.html
http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/canola.asp
Canola is not the name of a natural plant? Sure it is -- it's the name of a cultivar, developed in 1978 through conventional plant breeding from rapeseed (Brassica napus L.). For hundreds of years, rapeseed had been used as a fuel in lamps in Asia and Europe. It contains high levels of erucic acid content, which makes it bitter -- and toxic. The new cultivar contains significantly lower levels of erucic acid, and so the new name came from the abbreviation "Can.O., L-A." (Canadian Oilseed, Low-Acid) that was used by the Manitoba government to label the seed during its experimental stages. "Canola" is now a tradename for "double low" (low erucic acid and low glucosinolate) rapeseed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canola
Rapeseed oil is poisonous because it kills aphids ... by suffocating them? Lord above, throw out all your pillows!!!! Those have been known to suffocate HUMANS!!!
Rapeseed oil is not a food because it has industrial uses? Lord above, DON'T EAT CORN!!! Industrial uses of corn include filler for plastics, packing materials, insulating materials, adhesives, chemicals, explosives, paint, paste, abrasives, dyes, insecticides, pharmaceuticals, organic acids, solvents, rayon, antifreeze, soaps, and many more. DON'T EAT SOYBEANS!!! Soy is an ingredient in many industrial lubricants, solvents, cleaners and paints. It's used to make diesel fuel, inks, candles, hydraulic fluid, foams used in coolers, refrigerators, automotive interiors, and even footwear. OMG, get this -- it's used to make crayons, to replace the petroleum that is used in regular crayons. This is -- gasp!!! -- supposed to make the crayons nontoxic and safer for children. Some that has INDUSTRIAL USES makes children's crayons safer? Get those crayons off the shelves RIGHT NOW!!!
To continue...
"Scrapie" and "Mad Cow Disease" DISAPPEARED in 1991 when rapeseed oil was removed from animal feed? That's gonna come as a major surprise to the people who -- foolishly, apparently -- to this day continue to study prion diseases and the government agencies tasked with ensuring the safety of meat intended for human consumption. Not to mention, these diseases were described by Hippocrates in the 5th century. Yet Ms Bradley seems to think they only existed between 1986 and 1991 when -- according to her -- was the only time rapeseed was used in animal feed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmissible_spongiform_encephalopathy
"In 1999, Switzerland was the first country that applied screening tests to non-BSE-suspect, healthy slaughtered, and perished cattle, which enabled infected cattle to be detected at a preclinical or unrecognized early clinical stage. Such active surveillance has subsequently been adopted worldwide and has led to a significant increase in not only the number of cases but also often the identification of index cases in countries that had previously claimed to be free from BSE."
http://vdi.sagepub.com/content/22/6/823.long
"BSE" is what the erudite Ms Bradley refers to as "mad cow disease".
Oh -- and not to be picky or anything, but rapeseed is still grown for the production of animal feed.
Rape oil is the source of the chemical warfare agent mustard gas? Pardon me while I choke to death. One assumes this fascinating information was derived from the fact that "canola" sometimes refers to a cultivar of Brassica campestris L. or Brassica Rapa var., commonly known as "field mustard". The CW agents referred to as "mustard gas" are low-molecular-weight compounds produced by any of several chemical synthesis methods. When used in impure form, they are usually yellow-brown in color and have an odor resembling mustard plants, garlic or horseradish, hence the name. They have nothing whatsoever to do with canola or rapeseed. GEEZ.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulfur_mustard
And nobody -- and I do mean nobody -- can get a food on the FDA "Generally Recognized As Safe (GRAS)" by bribing the FDA.
I'd continue, but I'm afraid I'd have a stroke.
Whether erucic acid from edible oils may be toxic to humans is controversial. However, no negative health effects have ever been documented in humans.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erucic_acid
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