On Sun, 26 Nov 2006 08:39:02 -0800, Brenda Young 
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>  I was just surprised to see a few references to an oil that I wouldn't 
touch with a ten foot pole. 

Brenda, if you do a search on canola, you'll find it's been mentioned 
hundreds of times in this forum, though not as much lately, until now that 
is! :) I would actually be surprised if it didn't come up from time to 
time.

It's actually more surprising to see Carrie's positive comment about 
butter here in this no-dairy Paleo Food forum, not that I'm complaining or 
anything. Most mentions of butter here are about nut butters or coconut 
butter. None of the prominent advocates of the Paleo way of eating, 
Audette, Cordain or Eaton, advocates using dairy butter. My understanding 
is that some traditional diet advocates, like Price, Pottenger, Enig, 
Fallon and Ray Peat have advocated dairy butter. There are many areas of 
agreement between advocates of Paleo and traditional diets, but dairy is 
one area where there is strong disagreement. It's good to get a different 
perspective in here so we aren't all just agreeing with each other. :)

Brenda, you mentioned that you might have read something by Dr. Mercola on 
canola oil? Do you happen to know why he's against olive oil? I don't 
remember his reasoning. I know you don't use canola oil, do you use any 
cooking fats? It sounds like you're like me in not adding much cooking 
fats beyond what's already in the meats.