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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.
- Sales Rank: #3266234 in Books
- Published on: 2000-07-01
- Released on: 2000-07-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.17" h x 1.00" w x 6.36" l, 1.22 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 224 pages
From Publishers Weekly
In this compelling report, anesthesiologist Ray Greek and veterinarian Jean Swingle Greek argue against the use of animals in medical experiments. Although the Greeks believe that animal experiments are immoral and wasteful, they avoid the philosophical arguments used by most animal rights activists to generate sympathy for animals. Instead, they marshal a devastating amount of scientific evidence about the human consequences of animal-based medical research. Because of important differences in animal and human physiology, they contend, animals often have a wildly different response to diseases and medications than do humans--according to the authors, every year roughly 100,000 Americans die of adverse reactions to drugs that proved, in animals, to be perfectly safe. Why then do we continue to support widespread animal testing? They pack their well-written, shocking expos? with horror stories--about the unnecessary expense of animal experiments; about medications that, though animal tests suggested they were safe, caused liver and heart failure, hemorrhages and death in humans; and about the potentially life-saving drugs that have been kept off the market for humans because they cause harmful side effects in animals. Throughout, the authors make a strong case for the adoption of nonanimal research alternatives such as clinical observation, in vitro and epidemiological studies, diagnostic imaging of patients, mandatory postmarketing drug surveillance, autopsies, computer modeling and larger, longer clinical trials. Their powerful, courageous appeal is essential reading for concerned citizens and open-minded physicians, veterinarians and scientists. (May)
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
Every day we use products, take medications, and benefit from medical procedures that have all been tested on animals. If we think about it at all, we assume that the testing has made the products and procedures safe for human use. The authors, both of whom are medical professionals who have performed experiments on animals, assert that this is not necessarily the case. In fact, they contend that the animal model has harmed and even killed people. Yet animal testing is an institution required by the FDA and relied upon by pharmaceutical companies as they attempt to avoid malpractice litigation. Indeed, the medical research establishment, including higher education, depends upon research dollars to keep this industry operable. Sacred Cows and Golden Geese covers the history of animal experimentation, legislation that promulgates it, the real cost to humans, and alternatives. It is a well-written, if disturbing, book that should serve to awaken us from complacency.
-Peggie Partello, Keene State Coll. Lib., N.H.
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Booklist
The Greeks aren't the first to point out the bad science and high costs of experimentation on animals. But they may be the first to investigate the subject thoroughly and report their findings in a well-written, well-documented, and accessible book. They strive not so much to help prevent harm to animals as to prove that the results of animal experiments usually aren't applicable to humans. Early researchers are often credited for discoveries because they worked on animals, whereas clinicians who observed the same conditions in their patients are overlooked. The Greeks also report many cases in which animal experimentation confused or held up work on humans. Human cells and tissues, they say, can be used in many more and much more pertinent experiments than can those of animals. The lobby for animal experimentation consists of breeders and suppliers, equipment companies, drug companies, universities, and grant-giving groups, all of which exert great pressure on the FDA and other government agencies. A book to spur discussion and action. William Beatty
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28 of 34 people found the following review helpful.
best book on the subject--clear, cold-blooded logic
By Amazon Customer
This book stands virtually alone as a well-reasoned defense against vivisection (a.k.a. animal research). The authors make no appeals to emotion. They do not deny that animal research is sometimes cruel. However, compassion and cruelty have nothing to do with their argument.
Greek and Greek-a medical doctor/ veterinary team-argue that animal research hurts people. They point out the countless ways in which animals differ from humans. Veterinarians know that, although the same drugs are used in multiple species, these drugs behave differently and achieve different results in different kinds of animals. Mammals are alike only on the level of gross anatomy. Biochemically, even rats and mice differ enormously, to say nothing of humans and mice.
Tracing the history of western medicine, Greek and Greek show how animal models for disease became part of the expected protocol. They show how these models have hindered doctors and scientists far more than they have helped. They point out that nearly all major breakthroughs in medicine have been initiated not by study in animal models, but by autopsy and clinical studies. Careful observation of human beings by doctors and caretakers has, time and again, led to medical breakthroughs which are later "confirmed" or "substantiated" by animals research. The vivisectionists then claim the laurels for these discoveries when the animals were, in fact, superfluous. Greek and Greek also point out the tremendous harm that animal models have caused. Such models lead to a sense of false confidence that drugs will not be harmful or that the risk is low. In fact, the recall rate for drugs is 50%. Fifty percent have adverse, unexpected side affects after they are loosed on a population that has trusted in animal models. 50% is the toss of a coin! Millions upon millions of dollars are poured into animal tests yearly.
In addition, animal models have slowed the recall of harmful drugs. Thalidomide is one of many examples. This drug causes hideous birth defects in humans, but no birth defects in rats, mice, most rabbits, guinea pigs, and other animals. Doctors realized that the drug was causing birth defects and warned the company, but thalidomide could not be recalled until an animal model was found in which the drug caused birth defects! So thalidomide remained on the market, causing children to be born with flippers, until an obscure species of rabbit was found who also produced deformed kits when given the drug. Only then could thalidomide be recalled!
Greek and Greek show how the idea of the animal model is based on greed and bureaucracy, not good science. They explain that, while scientists of the past were primarily wealthy people doing a hobby they enjoyed, today's scientists are required to continually produce statistically significant results in order to keep their jobs. Just to graduate with a PhD requires a candidate to perform meaningful research. Under these conditions, the temptation to reach for something quick, easy, and difficult-to-disprove are enormous. Rats and mice fit the bill. They breed rapidly, are easy to house, and it takes a long time to show that the result of research in rats does not actually have any useful application for human beings. Clinical students in human beings, on the other hand, can take decades. In addition, human beings are far less corporative than rats, and there are limits to what you can legally do to them and what they will allow you to do. The catch, of course, is that clinical studies in human beings actually produce useful results, whereas animal models very often lead nowhere. Yet university professors anxious to keep their jobs and young students desperate to get their degrees continue to reach again and again for cheap and easy research models. In addition, huge companies manufacture expensive equipment for miniature surgeries on rats, dogs, cats, birds, mice, monkeys, goats, guinea pigs, rats, and all manner of other beasts. These creatures require all manner of housing, some of it vary expensive, and human-type surgeries on them require very specialized and expensive instruments. Animal models are a multimillion dollar industry.
With today's technology, even many clinical studies could be circumvented by using invetro methods. Human cells can be cultivated on a Petri dish or in a test tube and then exposed to various drugs. There is no reason to keep using the clumsy and inaccurate barometer of four-legged creatures.
Greek and Greek fill much of their book with one example after another. Their research is superb. I began the book as a skeptic and ended it as a believer. I have a degree in biology, and I could find nothing wrong with their research. I passed the book on to one of my college biology professors. He was impressed and decided to start including the material in his ethics course.
Whether you are a member of the medical community or merely a consumer, I strongly recommend this book. Whether you agree with all of the Greeks' conclusions or not, they certainly make some valid points and have taken pains with their research. Read the book.
11 of 15 people found the following review helpful.
Animal research = scientific fraud
By Rod Clive
Compelling and persuasive treatise examining the scientific invalidity of animal testing and animal "models" of human health problems. In time, vivisection will be looked back upon as one of the greatest swindles ever foisted upon a gullible and desperate populace. While this book is not, as other reviewers have opined, the "first" to attack animal research on scientific grounds(that credit must go to Hans Ruesch's 'Slaughter of the Innocent'), the authors are to be commended for their lucid assessment of the appalling waste, cruelty, and corruption that is part and parcel of the vivisection industry. Anyone remotely concerned with the expenditure of their tax dollars and donations to charitable organizations should do themselves a favor and read this book. It will become clear that human clinical studies, epidemiology, preventative measures, and technological advances have been and will continue to be the truly valid methods of addressing human health problems. "Sacred Cows and Golden Geese" is a valuable reference for those with the fortitude to challenge vivisection apologists spouting off thinly-veiled threats such as "What's it going to be...your baby or your dog?", when in reality it's going to be both. Educate yourself and get angry! Kudos to the authors for a timely, well-written expose. I look forward to the next one.
12 of 17 people found the following review helpful.
The Most Important Book For Human Health
By Louis Gedo
Why is it that the richest country in the world (the U.S.) has the most severe health crisis in the world? Simple--- the basic foundation of treatment of illness is based on profits and not science! This is the one book that the medical racketeer industry doesn't want you to know about! It will change the lives of those who read it. Our family members, our friends, our enemies, people we don't even know, the future families of this nation, and ourselves are unimaginably impacted by what is contained in this book. Why do you think there have been death threats against this scientist and whistle- blowing physician? If you don't care how corporate American industries with the help of many of your elected politicians are stealing your hard-earned money, then don't read this book. If you don't care about how our family's and friends' health is being compromised adversely at the foundation or root level, then don't read this book. But if you want a book that will pay for itself thousands of times over in the amount of dollars you will spare yourself and your family, then this is the best investment you could make today.
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