I thought the same thing from all of the hype I had read on the Internet, some time ago. It isn't true what they are saying. Canola IS good for you...one of the best. Whoever started that awful rumor about Rape Seed and Castor Beans, etc., must have an ax to grind with the Conola people. It's patently false and wrong. I don't eat Canola because I happen to think that Extra Virgin Olive oil is better for me, but you shouldn't cook with it! It breaks down into dangerous free radicals very fast with cooking, as do many of the other oils...except...you got it!...PALM OIL!!! Palm Oil, the one we've heard all of the bad press on in the movie theaters, is the best oil to cook with because it is the most stable oil out there with cooking. It doesn't put nearly as many of those dangerous cancer-causing free radicals in the air for us to breath. Go figure.