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Something to think about.Robert Cohen <notmilk wrote:

notmilk From: "Robert Cohen" Wed, 08 Sep 2004 10:58:22 -0000NOTMILK - Experimenting on Little BoysIt is ethically irresponsible and rationally futile to justify experiments upon laboratory animals. All mammals feel pain, and non-human organs and systems are quite different from the human variety. Results from animal studies should be rejected, particularly rat research. Half of the cancers rats get, mice do not get. Half of the cancers mice get, rats do not get. Since data from one furry long-tailed rodent cannot be applied to another, how in the name of logic and the spirit of reason can we arbitrarily apply experimental animal research results to humans? Rats also lack gall bladders, and human and rat digestive enzymes differ, and yet, thousands of

laboratory studies based upon rat research have provided the foundation for nutritional advice dispensed by most American physicians. Many claim that chimpanzees are man's closest relatives, but twenty years before the polio vaccine was approved for human use, a group of experimental chimpanzees treated with polio vaccine died. Clearly, even chimpanzee research exists as a betrayal to both non-human primates and humans, who rely upon unreliable chimpanzee data. When it comes right down to it, the only time we really learn a scientific truth from an animal laboratory experiment is when the subjects are human. At least people have the ability to make volitional choices and volunteer for such research, right? The September, 2004 issue of the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition (Volume 58,9:1211-6) contains a study in which eight-year-old boys were used as the experimental models. How could a parent

allow their little boys to be poked, prodded, and have serum drawn from his veins? No amount of blood money can justify the pain and trauma to an eight-year-old. Hoppe, Molgaard C, and Michaelsen, three doctors at the Department of Human Nutrition at the Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, Frederiksberg, Denmark, should be placed in the same category as those Nazi doctors who experimented upon Jewish children duing the second world war. I would argue that, like laboratory animals, eight-year-old boys are in no way capable of making adult decisions by volunteering for such experiments. In any event, the objective of these scientists was to assess blood serum levels of insulin-like growth factor-I (IGF-I) upon little boys who ate either skimmed milk or low-fat meat. There are hundreds of millions of different proteins in nature and only one hormone that is identical between any two species.

That powerful growth hormone is IGF-I. IGF-I survives digestion and has been identified as a key factor in the growth of every human cancer. IGF-I is identical in human and cow. The experimental design required that the children ingest either 1.5 liters per day of skim milk or the equivalent grams of protein contained in meat for seven days. Blood samples were regularly drawn from these young experimental subjects. The scientists determined that blood levels of IGF-I increased by a factor of 19% in the milk-drinking group, but were unaffected in the meat-eating group. I visualize a hypodermic syringe drawing blood from a little boy's arm, and hear his cry, and yet, find valuable the information learned from this study. The wish is that such experiments not be performed on children. What is most important is a lesson to be learned: After drinking cow's milk, levels of powerful growth hormones increase

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