Thread: Genetically Modified Food is Really, Really Bad for Rats - and Maybe YOU!!!

Originally Posted by sivason

True! Picture J could be an exact picture of my sweet little Darla, who developed a tumor exactly like that. She only ate normal foods, like oats and rice and pasta. She was not a lab rat. That picture looks completely normal for a rat. They get those tumors all the freaking time. It is just something that happens to rats. By the time she died it was a bit larger than that one pictured.

You need to restrict your rats' diet.
The effects of patterned calorie-restricted d... [Carcinogenesis. 1993] - PubMed - NCBI

The rats used in this study ate too much. This breed of rat gets tumours when not given a restricted diet.

Originally Posted by tommo

You need to restrict your rats' diet.
The effects of patterned calorie-restricted d... [Carcinogenesis. 1993] - PubMed - NCBI

The rats used in this study ate too much. This breed of rat gets tumours when not given a restricted diet.

Thanks for the link. My last rats had a never ending food bowl, but the new ones do not get as much.