CANADA
The Telegram
It is almost unfathomable today: that a Canadian government would use at least 1,300 Canadians as nutritional guinea pigs: that, in an effort to understand food issues, scientists would give some subjects healthy food, while denying that same food to others. Give some nutritional supplements: withhold those supplements from others. And throughout the process, deny the unwitting subjects proper dental care, over concerns that care could cloud the results of the experiments.
But that is apparently what did happen between 1942 and 1952 with aboriginal children and adults in six residential schools across the country, in native reserves in northern Manitoba and, perhaps, on a broader scale as well.
Revelations about the studies came in a paper published by University of Guelph food historian Ian Mosby: widely reported on Tuesday, Mosby’s examination says that scientists took children and adults who were living essentially at a starvation level, and instead of getting them food, experimented with other nutritional options like supplements without informed consent for the studies.
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