I hate to sound like I am talking down to the American public, but lately, after reading labels to avoid Canola oil–poison alert–I have found an alarming trend. Companies are no longer simply listing Canola as the ingredient, but now are saying things like: may contain one or more of the following–safflower, sunflower or Canola oil; or, worse, they say the ingredient is a vegetable oil on the general label, and then list sunflower, safflower and/or Canola as the vegetables.

So for those of you who may fall for this scam, let me illustrate.

Vegetables

Not vegetables

But what stretch of the imagination are safflowers, rapeseed, and sunflowers vegetables?

Why are they doing this?

My guess:

So at the risk of insulting your intelligence, let me suggest–they think you are stupid–they being big food corporations, lobbyists, and the U.S. Government, which, as already pointed out in an earlier post, is using your money, your taxes to promote Canola and to try to convince you is it a healthful oil. Evidently the protests have reached their ears and their wallets, and they are now changing the labels to call Canola a vegetable, and to hide it in a list of seed oils, that, though probably not processed healthfully, are at least not poison as is Canola.

PLEASE!! Stop buying products which have this bad oil. Please do not let it gradually attack your family’s brains, livers, kidneys.

If we do not buy it, they won’t sell it. Yes, there will always be another cheap, highly processed substitute. But, at least it will not be the worst of the worst being promoted as a good oil.

Thank for listening.