Bryan > wrote in
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> Canola is rapeseed oil from plants that have been bred to be
> almost devoid of erucic acid, which tastes nasty.
> Conventional Canola is NOT healthful, but the new high oleic
> Canola IS. It was similarly developed through conventional,
> non-GMO, breeding. I prefer high oleic sunflower to high
> oleic Canola or High oleic soy because of the flavor.

Rapeseed oil was used for over a century to lubricate steam
engines.

There was a to-do many many years ago back when John George
Diefenbaker was still alive over the welcome sign to the town of
Tisdale, SK, which read "Tisdale the land of rape and honey."
Feminists objected to the glorification of rape on a town sign,
obviously unaware (or perhaps aware and ignoring it) that the
rape referred to here was a plant whose name came from the latin
for turnip, "rapa". Ignoring etymology will, as I've said
elsewhere, get you into all sorts of trouble.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tisdale,_Saskatchewan

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapeseed

"The Land of Rape and Honey is the third studio album by
industrial metal band Ministry, released in 1988 on Sire Records.
The image on the cover appears to be an electronically processed
version of a photo of a burned corpse in the Leipzig-Thekla sub-
camp of Buchenwald. This album is the band's first attempt at
industrial metal, as opposed to their previous albums which were
more electronically influenced."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Land_of_Rape_and_Honey

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