Canola oil - good or bad?

Satan was a fallen angel, so…

History is always written by the winners. It’s within the realm of possibility that Satan has gotten a bad rap. See Job: A Comedy of Justice by Robert A. Heinlein. :sunglasses:

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So, ya know, food and nutrition is one of my favorite topics :wink:

Coconut oil is high in omegas as well as caprylic acid (a natural antibacterial and antiviral) Research indicates that it supports brain function. I cook with it, and I also “oil pull” with it. I used to have periodontitis as one of the complications of high blood sugars, and I have totally reversed it by oil pulling with coconut oil. Here’s a link on the topic: Oil Pulling with Coconut Oil for Teeth

On the topic of canola oil: From my research, it does matter if it is GMO. GMO foods have round-up added into the molecular structure of the grain to make it pest resistant… not a good thing at all for the human microbiome. Unless canola oil says “organic” or “gmo” free, it is GMO. Coconut oil is a great alternative, imho.

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Actually I believe that some of the GMO rapeseeds have added a “Roundup resistant gene” so farmers can spray their field with Roundup and it will kill everything except the crop. The Genuity strain from Monsanto is like this.

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After Bush and Cheeney and Tony Blair conned the US and UK into attacking Iraq in 2003, one of the things the puppet administration the US put in place did was to ban farmers from the ancient practice of saving a certain amount of their rice to plant as seeds for next years crop. Instead the farmers were forced to buy Monsanta’s GMO rice which is sterile, i.e. you cannot plant some of the rice for next year’s crop but are forced to buy new seeds from the evil buggers at Monsanta every year. Just another example of how evil corporations can get and another reason people worldwide are very skeptical of the term GMOs.

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Published June 2003 (I’m sure laws have become much more restrictive)
https://www.organicconsumers.org/old_articles/ge/062403_saving_seeds.php
Question: By law, can farmers save & replant PVP-protected seeds without authorisation from the breeder?
(Many nations are summarized - here are 2)
CANADA
* only if the seed is from their own harvest (they didn’t get it from
another farmer)
* only to replant it on their own farm (no sharing, exchanging or selling)
NB: The government is planning to require farmers to pay for the privilege
(i.e. imposing royalty payments on farm-saved seed).
UNITED STATES
* only if the original seed was legitimately obtained
* only if the seed is from their own harvest (they didn’t get it from
another farmer)
* only to be resown on the farmer’s own holding (no sharing, exchanging
or selling)

‘If you control man’s food and/or water you control man.’

To be honest the whole idea of a big corporation being allowed to patent the genes of a living plant and sue farmers for patent infringement if the wind blows some seeds onto their land and the plants end u[ growing, gives me the creeps, like the first time I saw the movie Frankenstein.

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coconut and olive oil, butter and lard. Yum! i just had sardines in olive oil, butter, and physillium bread (baked using coconut oil) for breakfast, so I’ve had 3 of the 4 already today.