[Sca-cooks] Carcinogens (was Roux and file')

[Nick Sasso]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Avraham haRofeh" <goldberg at bestweb.net>
> Let's face it, folks, in the modern, industrialized West, LIVING is
> carcinogenic. What most folks fail to understand is that the average
study
> demonstrating "carcinogenicity" tests these things at quantities and
> concentrations no one would ever eat. The (rather poorly designed)
studies on
> sodium saccharin, way back when, fed those damned rats something on
the order
> of 20 mg/kg/day - the equivalent of a 150lb person eating 3+ POUNDS
of
> saccharin a day.

The other part they don't often advertise on the local news or in
Cosmopolitan magazine is that the animals used in such research have
been selectively bred by the research community for susceptibility to
develop cancer.  There was a reason at some point for the breeding
program, but now some of the litters can develop cancer simply if their
light cycles are changed too quickly (amount of daylight/darkness that
occurs and when).  While I appreciate the spirit of the studies, some
culture somewhere would prefer those rodents in a stew pot.

I'd love to be able to shoot study info to you.  Either for to get a
digital copy or your learned opinions.  I read lots of articles while in
Grad school (behavioral and bioPsych journals), but have been out of
that wading pool for a little while.

pacem et bonum,
niccolo difrancesco