CAN-USA 2025 Tariff Strife (split from various pol threads)

[PrairieFella]

Not as filthy as when we called it rapeseed…

Functionally a different plant now bred by the University of Manitoba. Canola stands for CANada Oil Low Acid. The acid being eruric which made rapeseed of limited use cooking wise. It is perfectly safe to eat in moderation. If even the Europeans accept it when it meets its ureric acid limits (which commerically available stuff does), its fine.

Fats and oils

How to incorporate fats and oils as a part of a heart-healthy diet, and the role of different fats such as trans fats, monounsaturated fats, polyunsaturated fats, omega fats, and saturated fats.

www.heartandstroke.ca

Inb4 the appeal to knowledge, 8th generation prairie grain farmer. Haven't been hurt by canola yet haha. Just dont eat it like olive oil, very neutral taste.

 

[ArmyRick]

perfectly safe to eat in moderation

Its my personal opinion (that many MDs share) zero is the safe amount of canola to consume.

I wouldn't be quick to quote things from heartandstroke. Its a deep rabbit hole but there are many cardiologist fed up with recommendations by H and S.

Its a topic better to split off. Myself, being a 90-95% carnivore and I frequently fast 24-48 hours, I have very "unconventional" views and not the least bit interested in sharing them here.

 

[Good2Golf]

Functionally a different plant now bred by the University of Manitoba. Canola stands for CANada Oil Low Acid. The acid being eruric which made rapeseed of limited use cooking wise. It is perfectly safe to eat in moderation. If even the Europeans accept it when it meets its ureric acid limits (which commerically available stuff does), its fine.

Fats and oils

How to incorporate fats and oils as a part of a heart-healthy diet, and the role of different fats such as trans fats, monounsaturated fats, polyunsaturated fats, omega fats, and saturated fats.

www.heartandstroke.ca

Inb4 the appeal to knowledge, 8th generation prairie grain farmer. Haven't been hurt by canola yet haha. Just dont eat it like olive oil, very neutral taste.

So Canamonsanto GMO-approved?

 

[PrairieFella]

So Canamonsanto GMO-approved?

Right up there with GMOs broccoli and cabbage

 

[Genetk44]

Would be nice to get more European cheeses here at a more decent price.

We have lots of other agricultural sectors that are not supply managed and do well. Beef, for example was never supply managed.

Also, it’s weird that we allow less than 9000 extremely wealthy farms to hold the rest of our economy hostage. If we have one big stumbling block to increasing trade with the rest of the world, it’s this.

This is one thing I agreed with Mad Max about.

We get far more high quality European cheeses, at least in Quebec, than they do down in the US.

 

[Genetk44]

Would they disappear or be absorbed into larger corporate dairy farms?

They would mostly disappear. Our much smaller dairy sector would be flooded out of business. The state of Wisconsin alone has more dairy cattle than all of Canada. And California has 3-4 times the number of dairy cattle than Wisconsin. Plus the American government subsidizes the US dairy industry to the tune of billions per year.

 

[Genetk44]

Trump's latest whim of having Coke switch over to cane sugar in place of HF corn syrup will be another nail in the coffin of the American grain farmer. First the gutting of USAID, then the Potash tariff, then the rounding up of their Indentured Servants and now the cutting of HF corn syrup from Coke (if it happens).

An awful lot of American farmers are going to be going under because of this. Talk about corporate farming takeovers, this is it.

Going back to using sugar in Coke versus hf cornsyrup is a good thing.

 

[Genetk44]

Not sure how much the cutting head on a combine costs, but farmers would need to buy a cutter head for other crops if they only had a corn head…

I have a buddy who farms 5,000 acres in Indiana….corn and soyabeans. Corn goes to the poultry feed businesses and soya goes wherever. He has all his own equipment and does his own harvesting…..plenty of farmers in the US just like him.

 

[Genetk44]

Apparently Canada has resolved its dairy issues with New Zealand.

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