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- From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lflj@bellsouth.net>
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- Subject: [permaculture] Fwd: [SANET-MG] The Experiment Is on Us: Science of Animal Testing Thrown into Doubt
- Date: Wed, 08 May 2013 11:10:42 -0400
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Subject: [SANET-MG] The Experiment Is on Us: Science of Animal Testing Thrown into Doubt
Date: Sun, 5 May 2013 22:20:57 -0400
From: J Latham <jrlatham@BIOSCIENCERESOURCE.ORG>
To: SANET-MG@LISTS.IFAS.UFL.EDU
Dear Friends and Colleagues
This has a lot to do with non-organic agriculture and the food system:
Published today (May 6th) in Independent Science News:
The Experiment Is on Us: Science of Animal Testing Thrown into Doubt
by Pat Dutt and Jonathan Latham
URL: http://independentsciencenews.org/news/the-experiment-is-on-us-animal-toxicology-testing-science/
Synopsis: New research strongly suggests that animal testing does not meaningfully protect us from unsafe food additives, pesticide contaminants, and other industrial chemicals.
National and international regulatory frameworks for protecting humans from chemical exposures are heavily dependent on animal testing. A premise of animal testing is that mice and other animals mimic human responses to carcinogens and other toxins. Yet even though most of toxicology and medical research rests on it, the idea of 'concordance' between species has not until now been systematically tested. A major body of new research, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (Seok et al, 2013), concludes that mice have negligible usefulness as experimental models for humans in the study of inflammation. Inflammatory diseases are an important class of human illnesses. But if, as seems probable, the results can be extrapolated to other diseases and disorders, then the entirety of current toxics testing is deeply flawed. So too is much of medical research. Since toxics testing procedures are likely worthless there is a strong case that the public should be taking steps to protect themselves by avoiding processed and non-organic foods, and non-traditional products and materials.
Reference: Seok, J Shaw Warren, H et al, (2013) Genomic responses in mouse models poorly mimic human inflammatory diseases. PNAS February 11, 2013 online edition.
Please tweet, post, blog and forward, etc. to interested parties.
Apologies for cross posting
Yours sincerely
Jonathan Latham, PhD
Executive Director
The Bioscience Resource Project
www.independentsciencenews.org
and
www.bioscienceresource.org
jrlatham@bioscienceresource.org
Skype: jonathanlatham2
Tel: 1-607-319-0279
- [permaculture] Fwd: [SANET-MG] The Experiment Is on Us: Science of Animal Testing Thrown into Doubt, Lawrence F. London, Jr., 05/08/2013
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