By Jessica Sandler and Kate Willett, Ph.D.
Is there any adult in America who is unaware that exposure to asbestos is linked to certain cancers and respiratory diseases? The cause and effect has been conclusively documented, yet our government is now proposing to spend hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars and use tens of thousands of animals to re-explore this issue.
And that's just the tip of this illogical iceberg. The Department of Health and Human Services' National Toxicology Program (NTP) also wants to do more experiments on animals with such known dangerous substances as methanol, ethylene glycol (antifreeze) and diacetyl, an ingredient of microwave popcorn butter flavoring that causes "popcorn workers' lung disease"
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