Animal lab studies/ Human Health

[Catherine]

I have no idea how to title this thread, but the article is worth reading.

Studies are done on lab animals and then reported as a break through in human health.

The article may be more interested in getting reports labeled better, but it clearly shows the pointlessness of using animals in lab studies.
http://www.healthnewsreview.org/2015/07/...-research/

Am I right? Every example given shows why the research gives us no useful information. The lab animals died for nothing.

Better, would be studies using humans who volunteer to test things.
People could test various diets and see what effect they have on our health. The change in diet would not need to be drastic. What do we really learn from over dosing rats and mice on salt?

We eat a high salt diet in North America and yet puberty has been occurring at younger and younger ages. That contradicts the mouse study.
Anyhow we are not rodents. We have different dietary needs.