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Written by Mike Aiken on Sunday, 21 July 2013
Earlier this week, news reports described experiments in nutrition run through two residential schools in Kenora. They included children at C.J. and St. Mary’s during the 1940’s and 1950’s. On Friday, Steve Allen from the Presbyterian Church in Canada responded to the research by Dr. Ian Mosby.
“Reading his paper is chilling, and it’s really painful. Dealing with the legacy of the residential schools doesn’t have an easy beginning and end. These things emerge,” said Allen, who heads the justice ministries programs on behalf of the church.
Mosby is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Guelph. He recently published an academic article, which described experiments designed to help aboriginal people make the transition from a traditional diet to more mainstream foods.
In his paper, Mosby writes “The experiment therefore seems to have been driven, at least in part, by the nutrition experts’ desire to test their theories on a ready-made ‘laboratory’ populated with already malnourished human ‘experimental subjects.’ ”
Mosby further emphasizes that the research was carried out without the informed consent of the parents or children involved.
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