11:45am Monday 15th March 2010
FULL marks to Dr Tom Smith for pointing out that frultis, a chemical in sundried tomatoes, has not been proved to prevent the growth of prostate cancer in humans, although it does in laboratory rats.
Quite apart from the animal welfare aspect, it is naive to think that drugs testing in animals will benefit in humans. One has only to remember the tragedy of thalidomide to appreciate this fact.
Animals have a completely different DNA from us and the sooner animal testing is abolished the better, for all of us.
M E BYSH, Knowlesley Road, Darwen.
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