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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 in 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. (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) 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. </columns/canola2f.htm>
Go to Ask Jeeves yourself: http://www.askjeeves.com/
http://www.askjeeves.com/>
and type in (Where does Canola Oil come
from?) and see what you come up with.
Happy Frying,
Rodney W. Flynn
Lucent Technologies
VIRGOS-AC Development
Phone *: 978-960-3166
Email *: rwflynn@lucent.com <mailto:rwflynn@lucent.com>
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