Quote:
Originally Posted by bjh  Deana, I completely agree with you. It is so sad what happened to that poor little dog. Here is another sad story about a dog that got an implant: Memorial 7
Also the FDA apparently has approved microchips for humans but after doctors found out the microchips were causing cancer in lab animals they decided again pushing them for human use. Chip Implants Linked to Animal Tumors - washingtonpost.com
I know many people feel comfortable with microchipping their pets and that is their right but I would never do that to any of my babies. |
Something I'm sure most people don't understand is that studies done on rats concerning tumors don't really apply to humans or other animal. Rats are notorious tumor makers, you can inject them with water and a tumor can develop. While we can learn much about the development of tumors while studying rats, not all the information applies across species, and the only thing this study would suggest is that, if you microchip your rat, he might develop a tumor around it. You can't take a sentence from this or that study and understand something, you have to be able to read the whole study, the author should always discuss the other things that would cause the same effect, and if he doesn't, he's not following the rules of good scientific testing.