Subject: Truth about Canola Oil..
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 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 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 web
sites say that canola is safe to use. They admit it was developed from the
rape seed, but insist that through genetic engineering it is no longer
rape seed, 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 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 fromcloth 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.