Since I am (as you now know from last week's Civil Eats post) more of a realist than an idealist, I'm not especially hopeful that our elected officials will suddenly find the courage to defy Big Food — and forgo its campaign contributions — nor am I hopeful that industry will change its ways
voluntarily on a widespread basis.
Although the precise duration that an animal spent in a particular disease stage could not be determined
based on the
voluntarily nature of the examinations and the
widespread distribution of the study population across several continents, repeated examinations were used to provide a rough estimate of disease progression.