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Sacred Cows and Golden Geese: The Human Cost of Experiments on Animals
By C. Ray Greek, M.D., and Jean Swingle Greek, D.V.M.

Animal experimentation, which most people shrug off as a necessary biomedical evil, is actually a gross betrayal of science.

Sacred Cows and Golden Geese is the first book to demonstrate, in detail, that reliance on laboratory animals is not necessary. It is expensive. It is inaccurate. And further, it is detrimental to the very species it professes to help—humankind

Although animal experimentation is a touchstone of the scientific age, its benefits are a myth—perpetuated by an immensely profitable medical establishment that includes researchers, medical facilities, drug companies, universities, and even cage manufacturers.

C. Ray Greek, MD, and veterinary dermatologist Jean Swingle Greek show how the public has been deliberately misled. (The real source of medical innovation is human-based evidence.) In the process, they blow the lid off vested-interest groups whose hidden agendas actually put our health at risk.

"Beautifully written, urgently conceived, comprehensively researched, Sacred Cows and Golden Geese is a desperately needed book that has the potential to incite a major shift in the thinking of millions of people. By relentlessly accessing the data with a stern objectivity and compassionate embrace of the issues, Ray and Jean Greek have done what no other authors have yet accomplished: calmly, powerfully, convincingly explained why invasive animal research is a monstrous deception. The Greeks are likely to find themselves in the midst of a firestorm. What they have uncovered will make countless industries, universities, foundations, and institutions as grand as the National Institutes of Health quake in their sleep."
—Michael Tobias

Hardcover, 256 pages