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I've never understood why we use mice for diet studies, when the diet they've adapted to would appear to be so different from the diet humans have adapted to.
by whiddershins 11y ago
I've never understood why we use mice for diet studies, when the diet they've adapted to would appear to be so different from the diet humans have adapted to.
- jimrandomh 11y agoIt's because mice weren't included in the Animal Welfare Act of 1966, while other major model organisms were. This made mice much easier to use, and then the widespread use of mice caused infrastructure to build up around supporting studies of them. It led the whole field into a deeply confused quagmire.