Word: canola
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...woman beside me her Minute rice—in an eerie, Muzac-free silence. I tried to think of the heroes of Sept. 11, but the golden ranks of cooking oil had impressed themselves on my imagination and all I could muster was a profane and tedious mantra: Canola? Corn? Vegetable? Finally the nasal woman thanked us and told us we might continue shopping. Carts whirred back to life to the gentle strains of Muzac. The moment of silence had elapsed as irreverently as most...
Last Sunday, amid the ancient trees and proud Halls of Harvard Yard, carnival popcorn machines spewed the overwhelming smell of cooking canola oil and rows of port-a-potties stood ready to receive hundreds of impatient movie-goers. It was University President Lawrence H. Summers’ latest wholesome activity for the Harvard community: Movie Time. Even intermittent rain could not deter the fanatics, who regard watching Ferris Bueller to be a religious experience (especially when Matthew Broderick showers), the bored, who opted not to do their tutorial reading and, of course, the inevitable free-loader types who came...
...human diet. Dietary fats contain a mixture of saturated and unsaturated fatty acids (the difference: saturated fats carry a full quota of hydrogen atoms in their chemical structure, and unsaturated fats do not). Such products as tallow, lard and butter are saturated fats, whereas those like soybean, canola, olive, cottonseed, corn and other vegetable oils are unsaturated. Saturated fats are associated with increases in LDL cholesterol (the bad kind); unsaturated fats can bring that number down...
Seven years ago, HUDS was an industry “leader” when they switched to using healthy canola oil in place of oils with a high transfat content, according to Miller...
Then there is the problem of "genetic pollution," as opponents of biotechnology term it. Pollen grains from such wind-pollinated plants as corn and canola, for instance, are carried far and wide. To farmers, this mainly poses a nuisance. Transgenic canola grown in one field, for example, can very easily pollinate nontransgenic plants grown in the next. Indeed this is the reason behind the furor that recently erupted in Europe when it was discovered that canola seeds from Canada--unwittingly planted by farmers in England, France, Germany and Sweden--contained transgenic contaminants...