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Canada Experimented on Indigenous Children Without Their Knowledge
In the 1940s, the Canadian government discovered that Indigenous children in residential schools were suffering from serious malnutrition. They found low body weight, vitamin deficiencies, anemia, inflamed gums, decaying teeth and other signs of poor nutrition.
Instead of feeding these children proper nutrition, Canadian officials and researchers such as Dr. Lionel Pett, a chief architect of Canada’s Food Guide, saw an opportunity to study them. Beginning in 1947, they turned six residential schools into sites for a nutritional study that continued for several years.
In one experiment at the…
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