From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lflj@bellsouth.net>
To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
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:
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