Tracy, I did not send this question about Canola Oil. I NEVER touch the stuff.
~Hanan In a message dated 4/3/01 6:49:22 PM, [email protected] writes: << this has a little bit about rape seed in it. Don't touch the stuff Hanan. I wanted to know about the hardened coconut oil I buy. I wanted to know if it is the same thing as the liquid? Its like a big block of white fat. Does it change its properties when hardened I wonder. > Canola Oil > > 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 an 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 pieceof > 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 D.. > 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. > > ----------/---------- > All stressed out, and no one to choke... > > 2001/04/03 18:30:38 CDT > >> -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: [email protected] -or- [email protected] with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line. 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