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...Iowa’s wheat fields were contaminated. North of the border, in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan, organic farmers were so affected that they are in the process of filing a class-action lawsuit against Monsanto for making it impossible for them to grow GM-free organic canola on their land. Canadian wheat farmers are also threatening a similar suit...
...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...