Have you heard of intermittent fasting? It’s one of the more common diets in recent years.
Millions of people around the world follow it by choice. And still, in the last few days we’ve seen articles being published about a group of reserchers in China, who, instead of studying the effects of fasting on people who do so on their own accord, decided to starve dozens of miserable mice for the purpose of their experiment.
Why experiemnt on living, setient beings when there are hosts of people sutibale for the test group? The simple answer is – because it’s easier.
Is this experiemnt beneficial? Even the researchers themselves admitted its conclusions cannot be applicable to humans.
The link between animal experiments and their relevance to humans has already been proven as non-existent. According to the HHS – around 95% of drug approval procedures, which include animal testing, fail when it comes to human testing as the drugs are found to be either ineffective or unsafe, and are disqualified.
In fact, one of the most widely used medications in the world – aspirin – is letal to mice and wouldn’t have passed the test trials used today
