butter and marg - thought this was interesting

[Meo]

Originally, canola was bred as a hybrid plant. These days, the large seed corporations HAVE geneticially modified the genome of their canola strains so that they are more disease resistant and so that you can spray massive amounts of herbicides onto the crop without actually killing the canola, just the weeds. They are suing farmers who inadvertantly grow their modified canola by accident as it's mostly a wind pollinated plant. This is way more and more canola plants are turning up on the highways of Australia as the seeds are moved around, the new genes and Round Up resistance is getting into the wild brassicas and the only way to keep the roadsides clear is weeding by hand (as if that's gonna happen!).

Also, I had heard that margarine was originally invented as a grease for ball bearings in the early industrial period and that it was initially black when produced. The French Navy adopted it as a butter substitue after it was discovered that it could be bleached and coloured to look the same as butter.