This five minute video shows where canola oil, vegetable shortening, and cattle feed come from. No wonder our spending on health care is so high.

Wordpress ^ | October 29, 2024 | Dan from Squirrel Hill

[grundle]

This five minute video shows where canola oil, vegetable shortening, and cattle feed come from. No wonder our spending on health care is so high.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cfk2IXlZdbI

[Racketeer]

I hear you. EVOO, butter, and organic cold pressed coconut oil is our standard.

I do have to deviate to peanut oil when frying my fish. Fortunately, it is only 6 times a year.

[TBall]

I don’t get it. I like olive oil, but don’t see the harm in using it for cattle feed?

[PAR35]

I just read recently that additives are permitted in food in the USA until they are proven harmful. In Europe, on the other hand, additives are NOT allowed in their foods until they are proven safe. This is why there are about 1000 additives permitted in food in the USA that are not permitted in Europe.

Flip side of that - you can get soft drinks sweetened with cyclamate in the EU, but they got banned in the US in 1979.

[suasponte137]

I can just see the left right now bitching about how not allowing all these unhealthy additives is going to raise the price of food and affect single moms and poor people blah blah blah

[Silentgypsy]

Avocado ping.

[Silentgypsy]

Yes, the headline seems inapplicable.

[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

Well, its mustard see oil that they treat to remove objectionable taste, but that does not stop it from going rancid quickly.

https://www.foodrenegade.com/why-canola-oil-not-health-food/

snip....."Certain that justice had yet to be served, I decided to buy a brand new bottle of canola oil as a barometer to determine if I was losing my gift for discerning tasteful things. Sure enough, the new bottle tasted and smelled clean. It had no odor and no particular taste. When I had both my son and husband taste and smell the new canola oil and compare it to the rancid oil, they both declared the rancid oil “disgusting!”

The surprising truth is, they were both rancid!

Developed through the hybridization of rape seed, canola oil is actually a delicate oil that turns rancid very quickly. (It’s named canola as in “oil from Canada.” Marketing figured it was much more appealing that the word “rape” — go figure!) And we all know that not many people are going to put up with knowingly ingesting rank, stale, decomposing oil.

That’s why the vegetable oil industry has a little-known trick that they don’t make public. Deodorizers are typically used in the making of canola oil. "

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rapeseed cake used to be given to cattle in Britain, but the mustard oil damaged their nervous system until they would just lay down and shake a lot like having prion disease. (De-mylinates the nerve sheath.)

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11565372/

Toxic effects in dairy cattle following the ingestion of a large volume of canola oil C Clark 1 , O Radostits, L Petrie, A Allen Affiliations

PMID: 11565372 PMCID: PMC1476612

Abstract

"The clinical and laboratory findings of a group of 9 dairy cattle that accidentally ingested large volumes of canola oil are described. Four of the animals died, and 3 were necropsied. No specific cause of death was found, although a number of theories are advanced. This is the first report of such an occurrence. "

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I do not use it and will not knowingly buy anything with canola in it. (WHATABURGER FANS...they deep fry in canola oil... you have been warned!)

[Pilsner]

“Developed through the hybridization of rape seed, canola oil is actually a delicate oil that turns rancid very quickly. (It’s named canola as in “oil from Canada.”

CANadian Oilseed Low Acid is supposedly how the seed sacks were labeled, hence CANOLA

[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

Pilsner; I can see it, makes sense to me!

[Veto!]

I take them out of freezer the day before I want to use them. Just put them on the counter in a small dish. Have half a dozen in the freezer now, bought four at Walmart where they were only 80 cents. My local Safeway is up to $3.25 now, though they’ve had them on sale too. Of course, they are at various stages of readiness. Some are very hard to begin with, some are ready to use. Just use your own judgement about when to freeze them. I wait until they’re reasonably ripe. I keep a ready-to-use in my fridge’s butter keeper. Never eat butter, so lemon and avocado fit fine there.

[redinIllinois]

Thanks for posting the video!!

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

Agreed. And I had some foods fried lightly in beef tallow in Belgium which were sensational.

[Glad2bnuts]

Thanks, I thought they turned black in the refer. As in, if you cut one open, put it in the fridge, it turns black quickly. I know that lemon will slow that down, I am hoping to buy 5-7 at a time and eat the last one on day 7. Walmart Avocados, small, but inexpensive.

[Bikkuri]

Not really sure. The one I posted is the only one I have used..