You can find Cordain's arguments in favor of canola oil here:=20=
> > http://thepaleodiet.com/faqs,

*** I find that argument illogical. Rapeseed is a member of the cabbage 
family, and people have been eating cabbage since before historic times. 
Therefore a heavily processed oil from a genetically engineered crop is a 
good food choice? I have read his book, and enjoyed it, but find some of his 
recommendations and conclusions... well... wrong.

I am not in the saturated fat ba-a-a-a-ad, unsaturated fat go-o-o-od camp 
myself. I find the science interesting, but I let technology be my guide in 
food choices. If it needed technology to make it, I'm not eating it. If 
climate permitted, I could grow olive trees and make my own olive oil. I do 
make my own raw butter (with a little help from the goats). I could not grow 
canola/rapeseed and make my own canola oil, so I'm not eating the stuff no 
matter how "good" the fatty acid profile looks.

>  I'm guessing that Paleolithic peoples didn't add any cooking oil

*** Maybe not the way we use it today, but it seems clear that fat would 
have been prized and not trimmed off the lean meat the way Cordain 
recommends.

--Carrie