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Canola contains small amounts of eurcic acid, which is bad for heart health and 80% of it is gmo and thus treated with tons of glyphosphate before harvest. Gly

Canola contains small amounts of eurcic acid, which is bad for heart health and 80% of it is gmo and thus treated with tons of glyphosphate before harvest. Glyphosphate is classified as a possible carcinogen by the world health organization. Gmo varieties are engineered to resist glyphosphate so the farmer can apply more of it.

ceejayoz 12y ago
> Glyphosphate is classified as a possible carcinogen by the world health organization. So's coffee. Meanwhile, sunlight and estrogen are known carcinogens, but we don't hide in dark caves and cut out ovaries. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erucic_acid http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erucic_acid indicates "the dietary intake of erucic acid by an individual consuming at the average level is well below the PTDI, therefore, there is no cause for concern in terms of public health and safety". This is the sort of scientific illiteracy that lets people like Food Babe scaremonger over what's in a pumpkin spice latte.
DanBC 12y ago
GMOs are resistant to glyphosate so the farmer can apply less of it, but do so earlier in the crop cycle. Glyphosate got a 2A rating from the IARC. That's a rating that has importance for people working with the chemicals - it's an industrial exposure rating relevant to people who spray their crops. It has no relevance to you as a consumer of canola oil. The dose of glyphosate you'd get from canola oil is tiny. Do you have a credible source for your eurcic acid claim? Canola oil contains by definition less than 2% its total fatty acids as erucic acid. We think harm occurs in the 750 mg per kg range. (So an average adult weighing 60 kg needs to eat 45 gr of erucic acid per day, and erucic acid is just 2% of canola oil so you'd have to eat 2 kg of canola oil per day to get that much erucic acid) We adjust that down by a factor of one hundred just because, so a safe daily dose is 7.5 mg. that means a person has to eat 375 mg of canola oil per day to reach this dose which is a hundred times smaller than the smallest dose we see harm in animal experiments - and for this small dose you need to use infant pigs, otherwise the risky dose is higher. By European law the amount of erucic acid must be less than 5%. US FDA rules say that canola oil must be less than 2% Erucic acid.

ceejayoz 12y ago

> Glyphosphate is classified as a possible carcinogen by the world health organization. So's coffee. Meanwhile, sunlight and estrogen are known carcinogens, but we don't hide in dark caves and cut out ovaries. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erucic_acid http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erucic_acid indicates "the dietary intake of erucic acid by an individual consuming at the average level is well below the PTDI, therefore, there is no cause for concern in terms of public health and safety". This is the sort of scientific illiteracy that lets people like Food Babe scaremonger over what's in a pumpkin spice latte.

DanBC 12y ago

GMOs are resistant to glyphosate so the farmer can apply less of it, but do so earlier in the crop cycle. Glyphosate got a 2A rating from the IARC. That's a rating that has importance for people working with the chemicals - it's an industrial exposure rating relevant to people who spray their crops. It has no relevance to you as a consumer of canola oil. The dose of glyphosate you'd get from canola oil is tiny. Do you have a credible source for your eurcic acid claim? Canola oil contains by definition less than 2% its total fatty acids as erucic acid. We think harm occurs in the 750 mg per kg range. (So an average adult weighing 60 kg needs to eat 45 gr of erucic acid per day, and erucic acid is just 2% of canola oil so you'd have to eat 2 kg of canola oil per day to get that much erucic acid) We adjust that down by a factor of one hundred just because, so a safe daily dose is 7.5 mg. that means a person has to eat 375 mg of canola oil per day to reach this dose which is a hundred times smaller than the smallest dose we see harm in animal experiments - and for this small dose you need to use infant pigs, otherwise the risky dose is higher. By European law the amount of erucic acid must be less than 5%. US FDA rules say that canola oil must be less than 2% Erucic acid.