Thank you for your interest in my post. I like to find the stories
behind societal beliefs like this that have so often been accepted without
question. I find it annoying when I find yet another example of my having
been
manipulated to suit someone else's agenda. On the other hand, I'm glad that
I found it so that I can "update" my thinking. And I thank you and everyone
else on this list in helping to stretch and broaden my mind with your
postings!
Thank you,
Joanne
"Re-examine all you have been told.
Dismiss that which insults your soul."
- Walt Whitman
----- Original Message -----
From: "Keith Addison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 11:32 AM
Subject: Re: re erucic acid in rapeseed oil, also re snake oil, WAS
Re:[Biofuel] Re:FOOD vS FUEL
Hello Joanne
Very interesting, thanks very much for taking the trouble.
Hello to Kirk and List,
The following is some further information that I think is worth
considering. I have not heard of any contradictory information to this
since the book was first published.
It took awhile to get written permission from the publisher to extract two
entire chapters from the book, then it took me another while to get them
typed
Typed?! Yikes - you need a scanner!
and cobbled together to send to the list. My apologies for not getting
this done in a more timely manner.
Never mind, we're all still here. :-)
Except Kirk, actually, who's away right now, but I'll send it to him to
make sure he sees it.
Thanks again.
Keith
Thank you,
Joanne
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kirk McLoren" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, February 07, 2005 2:48 PM
Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Re:FOOD vS FUEL
>>snip
> Chickens fed rapeseed and calves given rapeseed oil do not prosper.
> Rapeseed oil naturally contains a high percentage (30-60%) of erucic
> acid,
> a substance associated with heart lesions in laboratory animals. For
> this
> reason rapeseed oil was not used for consumption in the United States
> prior to 1974, although it was used in other countries. (Americans
> chose
> to use it as a lubricant to maintain Allied naval and merchant ships
> during World War II.)
> In 1974, rapeseed varieties with a low erucic content were introduced.
> Scientists had found a way to replace almost all of rapeseed's erucic
> acid
> with oleic acid, a type of monounsaturated fatty acid. (This change was
> accomplished through the cross-breeding of plants, not by the
> techniques
> commonly referred to as "genetic engineering.") By 1978, all Canadian
> rapeseed produced for food use contained less than 2% erucic acid. The
> Canadian seed oil industry rechristened the product "canola oil"
> (Canadian
> oil) in 1978 in an attempt to distance the product from negative
> associations with the word "rape."
>
> Why ingest any erucic acid? Economics as usual. As for me and my family
> we
> minimize the use of Canada Oil except as motor fuel.
>>end snip
[From the book Fats that Heal Fats that Kill by Udo Erasmus, with
permission from Alive Publishing Group Inc., Canada. www.alive.com]
"Fats that Heal, Fats that Kill" by Udo Erasmus
Copyright 1986, 1993
Second Edition, Fifteenth Printing - May 2004
Chapter 20 Erucic Acid: Toxic or Beneficial?
Chapter 56 Snake Oil (EPA) and Patent Medicines
<snip>
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