I have never had wormy flaxseed, but I have had some that I do believe went rancid (kept above the stove), and it was a lot less pleasant. I wonder if growing flax is all that difficult?
Flax meal isn’t affected by cold or heat from cooking. A cousin of mine didn’t refrigerate hers and it got wormy. I keep mine in the fridge with a second bag in the freezer.
My son is majoring in plant genetics at Michigan State University. I sent him this article. Right now he is finishing up his Fellowship for the American Society of Plant Biologists. He researching Atropa Belladonna and trying to fill in gaps in various stages and or parts of the plant so that we can make synthetic drugs. This is why some medicines are so expensive, because they are derived from plants, because we don’t know to make them ourselves.
It isn’t the area he wants to stay in though. He last mentioned an interest in barley.
super easy to grow - almost a perennial 'week'
So is you have a few acres to grow it on - and can actually collect the seed -
And then you could take the plants and spends days and days of back breaking labor beating them in linen thread - a two-fer