Really? Oil is not digested???

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From a website I just came across:

CANOLA OIL; I personally do not feed any hydrogenated oil to my horses,
as it is not recognizable by the horses DNA, so it not digested, and is
sometimes seen as a toxin.

Firstly, if I am correct, Canola oil is made from the Canola plant which is a commercial variety of oil rapeseed. So I am guessing 'Canola oil' is fairly similar to our 'Rapeseed oil'. Not sure why the person writing the article lumps hydrogenated oil under the rapeseed oil category??? (It's highly unlikely to be.)

Anyway, I was particularly fascinated at the "...is not recognizable by the horses DNA..." and "so is not digested." Wot?

Can someone explain that to me please? :confused:
 
Well, I've got a degree which covered agricultural and equine nutrition and I really don't remember cell DNA being mentioned in that context. Mystifying what you can find on the internet written by 'experts'. :rolleyes:
 
Agreed on the sentiment about what you can find on the InterWeb but here goes:-

It's picking up on all the "foodey" fears that abound today and folk are all too willing to attach pecular adjectives such as "toxin" to substances that people like me would call food.

However; there is a tiny modicum of truth in what this statement revolves upon - the business about DNA being involved with digestion - of course it is - it's the very reason that successive generations of horses grow up to instinctively eat grass and grass products and then be nourished by them. Research into why some horses suffer from grass sickness may prove a point about their bodies begin predisposed to this condition and others in similar fashion - predisposition is another way of saying - genetically - in the DNA.

Though I do have trouble with the part of statement that says horse's insides don't recognise this oil at all - well, they don't recognise anything do they? A great load of spodged up grass and hard food ( literally anything that will fit down the owner's neck) arrives at their stomach which induces exactly the same digestion chemicals to be secreted as the last lot. This mixture of chewed food ferments on its way through the gut with various substances being absorbed into the body through the gut walls - now this is where it gets complicated because it's this system that can be confused. Animals can be poisoned - hence all bad chemicals aren't being "recognised" but many are dealt with quite naturally - there's quite strong hydrochloric acid in mamalian digestion systems - it's only a problem if one develops and ulcer.

Basically what I'm saying is - there is no simple answer to a complex question!
 
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