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the crop whose blinding yellow fields look like nature filed an aggressive insurance claim
means A bright-yellow-flowering plant of the cabbage family grown for the oil pressed from its seeds, the source of canola oil.
from The "rape" here has nothing to do with the violent sense — it comes from Latin "rapum," meaning turnip, the plant's close relative. The two English words share a spelling by accident: the assault-meaning "rape" descends from Latin "rapere," to seize, while the plant traces to "rapum," the humble root vegetable. So this is a turnip-cousin's seed, awkwardly homophonous, which is partly why the rebranded oil now goes by the friendlier trademark "canola."
- name origin
- from Latin rapum, meaning turnip, not the crime
- rebrand
- renamed canola for North American comfort
- oil empire
- third most-produced vegetable oil worldwide
- engine fuel
- powers biodiesel and once lubricated steam machinery
- hidden danger
- wild varieties contain toxic erucic acid
canola oil production canada — canada produces 20 million tonnes annually, world's largest producer and exporter
eu rapeseed cultivation — france, germany, and poland grow rapeseed across 1.5 million hectares for biodiesel
monsanto roundup ready canola — genetically modified rapeseed variety approved 1996, now 95% of canadian canola