Our Poison Water

This study is so scary.

Testing chemicals on animals may be missing the effect on people. The most widely used herbicide, that is leeching into our drinking water, is safe for mice, but may cause diabetes and obesity in people!!

How did we miss this?

Mice and people have very similar, but not identical biology. The sweetness receptor is one of the differences. The herbicide has an anti-sweet effect in people, but not in mice.

The receptor is not just in our tongues, but also in our gut, helping to regulate the uptake of sugar.

Science's answer will be to humanize mice, by genetically changing the sweetness receptor to the human type, but this is just the tip of the iceberg. Animal testing is inadequate.
We must adopt the precautionary principle.