NEAVS Marks World Week for Animals in Labs with Special
Programs, National Speakers
NEAVS is proud to host Dr. Ray Greek during the Boston
stop of his four-city book tour!
Featuring nationally recognized speakers and authors,
the New England Anti-Vivisection Society (NEAVS) is presenting special
programs and events throughout April to mark World Week for Animals in
Labs, April 23- 30.
Ray Greek, MD, author, board-certified anesthesiologist,
and pain management specialist, will present a free lecture on Saturday,
April 1, from 2 - 4 p.m. at the "Press Room" of the historic Omni Parker
House, 60 School St., Boston. Using examples from the highly praised
book which he co-authored with his wife who is a veterinarian, Sacred
Cows and Golden Geese: The Harm to Humans from Experiments on Animals,
Dr. Greek examines the dangers and limitations inherent in animal
research -- including hazards to human health.
In her foreword, Dr. Jane Goodall writes: "... the
authors use factual, scientific arguments to explain how... the
infliction of suffering on animals in medical research is not a
biomedical evil, necessary to save human lives, but a real betrayal of
the scientific method ...and may actually be harmful to humans. [This
book] should find a place in all libraries, including high school
libraries."
Dr. Greek instructed at two of the country's most
prestigious medical schools and has published in several medical
journals. He is well known and widely respected on the lecture circuit,
and is an engaging medical authority as he presents his case.
The public, especially NEAVS friends and supporters, are
invited to this dynamic and informative free program. Call NEAVS at
617-523-6020 x13 to reserve seating. Space is limited, so be sure to
call today!
About Dr. Greek's Book:
SACRED COWS AND GOLDEN GEESE
The Human Cost of Experiments on Animals
By C. Ray Greek, MD, and Jean Swingle Greek, DVM
The heartfelt argument against animal exploitation in
medicine has struggled forward as a largely philosophical and emotional
appeal. Hence, until now, misinformation regarding medical achievements
garnered through animals has overwhelmed it. Finally, a new book adds
hard data regarding the negative economic and health consequences to
humans of animal experimentation. It promises to hasten the end of the
flaw-filled and wasteful practice. Sacred Cows and Golden Geese
thoroughly exposes the scientific failure of using animals for human
biomedical research.
Author and physician Ray Greek is this country's most
knowledgeable scientific voice against animal experimentation. As such,
he is frequently called to debate members of the animal experimentation
community. No one is as familiar with their argument and the medical
events they claim relied upon animal models. Dr. Greek, and his wife,
veterinarian Jean Swingle Greek, have gone to great ends to demonstrate
that these claims either misrepresent actual events or the researchers
used animals when other means could have provided more accurate,
expeditious and less dangerous results.
With hundreds of references, Sacred Cows and Golden
Geese proves that animal experimentation is imprecise, unnecessary and
hazardous. The comprehensive book takes a look at the actual
contributions made by animal experimenters on a case-by-case basis, from
AIDS research, to cancer therapies. The references refute the merit of
animal experimentation, not from the animal rights perspective, but from
that of the hundreds of scientists who have endured its inadequacy. Time
and time again, their experience proves how animal experimentation has
hindered medical progress and endangered humans.
Sacred Cows and Golden Geese takes a careful look at the
subversion of fact and forces that propel this miscarriage of science.
It describes the medical research community, the major multimillion
dollar corporations that control the shape of medical science the
world-over, and the biases of important health organizations that
perpetuate animal experimentation. Together, these create a system
moving under its own momentum toward a future that is extremely
perilous, not just for the animals being experimented upon, but for
humans whose health depends on medical breakthroughs.
It is this danger that makes reading Sacred Cows and
Golden Geese such an imperative. Its content is, in many respects,
bleak. However, the situation is far from hopeless and the course of
medical research can be redirected. The Greeks suggest a very different,
much more science-based and healthful future for medical investigation.
They describe contemporary biotechnologies proffering numerous means to
achievement that do not use animals, and in fact, enable much more
reliable results.
Sacred Cows and Golden Geese is a beginning, the first
exhaustive compilation of evidence representing the scientific fallacy
of animal experimentation. It has the potential to be a watershed
publication, because by encouraging more people to question the track
record and efficacy of the animal experimentation industry, it fortifies
the campaign against this cruel and duplicitous convention.
About Ray Greek, MD:
Dr. Ray Greek is a physician who is board-certified in
anesthesiology and sub-specialty certified in pain management. He has
taught anesthesiology at the University of Wisconsin - Madison and
Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia. He has published in several
medical journals including JAMA, JAVMA, Geriatrics, Pain Digest and
Cardiothoracic Anesthesia. He has performed experiments on animals and
research on humans. With his wife, Jean, a veterinarian, he wrote Sacred
Cows and Golden Geese: The Human Cost of Experiments on Animals. The
Greeks' thought-provoking letters-to-the-editor have appeared in leading
newspapers across the country, and their Op/Ed pieces have sparked
debate among readers both nationally and internationally.
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