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["Stephen Sadler" <Docshiva@Docshiva.org>]

Canola oil is from plants bred to nearly eliminate a fraction of the oil
that is harmful to people who breathe in the smoke from burning oil.
Rapeseed oil has been used for centuries, and lung problems occurred, but
were tolerated, in places that used it to cook over extremely high heat -
think wok cooking.  It's a common belief that the seed used to produce the
oil was genetically modified, but what I've read indicates that it is not.  


Stephen 

-----Original Message-----
From: nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org
[mailto:nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Gary Woods
Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2006 7:15 AM
To: North American Fruit Explorers
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] RapeSeedMythology

On Tue, 8 Aug 2006 20:08:49 -0400, you wrote:

>Canola Oil is fine to eat. Sure; Canada named it Canola.
>I would too. "Rape Oil" just doesn't have that appealing sound to most
folks.

I understanding there is some refining needed to make it edible.  The
plants are edible.... see also "Rapini" or "Broccoli Raab."  And be aware
that there is a lot of genetically modified Rape .....erm... canola out
there.  If the GM marker shows up in your plants, count on a lawsuit from
Monsanto.
Rape is to Turnip as Swiss Chard is to Beet.


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