News reaches us that trials are about to begin by an, as yet, unnamed pharmaceutical company, into the possible use of human faeces as a laxative.

Poo Science magazine informs us that the company has been investigating the use of faeces, or poo, for the last twelve months, introducing the substance into feeds taken by mice and rats.

The results so far have apparently shown impressive levels of poop related mishaps in the laboratory and scientists are now keen to see whether those results can be carried over to humans. An anonymous spokesperson for the company told Poo Science magazine: "We're pretty much looking at getting this to the general public by 2007, if all is successful. It's all a matter, a fecal matter if you will, of whether poo can be made into a pill that isn't utterly vile...or whether we need to introduce it as a drip or injection."

Animal activists have denounced the experiments on the rats as disgusting and we're inclined to agree. In fact, we're considering whether there would be a moral problem if one was to take the proposed pill as a suppository. Is it really a good idea to put poo back from whence it came?

Poo Science expects to see advertisements for guinea-pigs for the testing over the coming weeks, so we look forward to that.

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