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Title: SACRED COWS AND GOLDEN GEESE
THE HUMAN COST OF EXPERIMENTS ON ANIMALS
By: C.Ray Greek, Jean Swingle Greek, Jane Goodall (Foreword)
Format: Paperback

List price: £25.99


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ISBN 10: 0826414028
ISBN 13: 9780826414021
Publisher: BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC
Pub. date: 1 May, 2002
Pages: 224
Description: Challenging the belief that the use of animals in biomedical research is necessary for the advancement of human medical knowledge, the authors of this text assert that the use of animals in medical research is unethical because faulty science underpins such experimentation.
Synopsis: Cancer has long been cured in mice but not in people. Why? Successful laboratory treatments and cures for one species don't necessarily result in cures for humans. But, because practice has become economically entrenched within medical industry, animal experimentation -against all medical evidence- continues.The human benefits of animal experimentation- a bedrock of the scientific age- is a myth perpetuated by an amorphous but insidious network of multibillion-dollar special interests: research facilities, drug companies, universities, scientisits, and even cage manufacturers.C.Ray Greek, MD, and veterniary dermatologist, Jean Swingle Gree, DMV, show how the public has been deliberately misled and blow the lid off the vested-interest groups whose hidden agendas put human health at risk.
Publication: UK
Imprint: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
Returns: Returnable
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