Tag: canola

Are Vegetable Oils Killing Us? We Swapped Them in for Animal Fats 50 Years Ago

Our switch from cooking with animal fats, like butter, to cooking with vegetable oils runs back more than fifty years. It was thought that this would lower cholesterol and the rate of heart attacks. Has switching to vegetable oils benefited our health overall or is the trend going the other way? Dr. Joseph Mercola says…


China Lifts Restrictions on Canadian Canola: Ottawa Announces

A three-year Chinese ban on Canadian canola has come to an end, according to the federal government. In a joint statement released Wednesday afternoon, Trade Minister Mary Ng and Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau said China has reinstated market access for two Canadian grain trading companies that have been prevented from exporting canola seed to China since March 2019. “We welcome this decision…