what is Canola oil?

18 Sep 2010 3 Comments

by Scott Brown in digestive tract, nutrition

CANOLA OIL………(Important!!!)]
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, anaemia, 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 washes, 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
encyclopaedia).  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 odour 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.

http://www.wholewellnessclub.net/bfree