Recommended Reading

Sacred Cows and Golden Geese

Sacred Cows and Golden Geese is subtitled The Human Cost of Experiments on Animals. The authors are Ray Greek M.D. and Jean Swingle Greek D.V.M. Jane Goodall wrote the introduction.

Jean Swingle Greek and Ray Greek

For years, the debate against using animals in medical experiments has run into the over-simplified, but pervasive, pro-vivisection argument, "It's that rat or your child." In other words, if we don't use animals, humans will suffer.

Now there is a highly scientific argument, saying that is the totally wrong approach - if you do use that rat, your child is likely to suffer!

Ray Greek is a medical doctor, and his wife, Jean, is a world-renowned veterinary dermatologist. Together they have spent over ten years studying the use of animals in medical research.

Their findings are presented in the revolutionary book Sacred Cows and Golden Geese: The Human Cost of Experiments on Animals. This sentence from the book says it all:

Animal experimentation is not necessary. It is expensive. It is inaccurate. It is misleading. It consumes limited resources. And further, it is detrimental to the very species it professes to help - humankind.

The Greeks consider that the very considerable funding directed to support the animal-based research industry is a misapplication of financial and human resources.

A medical doctor and an animal welfare organization may seem unlikely partners, but IPPL fully supports the Greeks' work and recommends everyone read their book.

Sacred Cows and Golden Geese is available through your favorite bookseller or through www.amazon.com for $19.96.

The book is also available from www.amazon.co.uk

The River
by Cyril Rosen

The River, sub-titled A Journey back to the Source of HIV and AIDS was written by Edward Hooper and is published by Hamilton Books. The book, over 1,000 pages long, chronicles in a very readable way the author's search for the origins of human AIDS. Hooper's underlying theory, that AIDS was started through polio vaccine tests conducted in the then Belgian Congo in the 1950s, is controversial and under heavy attack by vested medical interests who absolutely and predictably deny that human tampering with nature could have led to one of the world's most devastating disease outbreaks.

However, the tales told by the author are fascinating. The book reveals details of a chimpanzee laboratory named Camp Lindi, near then-Stanleyville, which held hundreds of chimpanzees and bonobos in single cages over several years in the 1950s. Most of the animals died of stress or met experimental deaths.

The book is available from your bookseller or for US $28 from Amazon Books at www.amazon.com or www.amazon.co.uk

Primate Conservation Biology

Primate Conservation Biology by Guy Cowlishaw and Robin Dunbar is published by the University of Chicago Press, Chicago, USA. This is a technical conservation text worth the attention of people with an academic interest in primates.

The book is available from www.amazon.com for $27.00 or through www.amazon.co.uk

You can also contact dbloblaum@press.uchicago.edu or call 1-800-621-2736 from the United States.