Nov. 6: The Truth Behind Animal Experimentation

[Guest guest]

Berkeley Organization for Animal Advocacy presents:

 

Dr. Ray Greek

Author of Sacred Cows and Golden Geese:

The Human Cost of Experiments on Animals

 

Lecture Topic: THE TRUTH BEHIND ANIMAL EXPERIMENTATION

Dr. Greek will discuss alternatives to animal experimentation.

 

Tuesday, November 6, 7 PM

100 Genetics & Plant Biology Building

[Map Location: http://www.berkeley.edu/map/maps/BC23.html]

UC, Berkeley

 

*Admission is free.

 

Ray Greek, M.D., is a graduate of the University of Alabama School of

Medicine. He served his residency at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

He has taught anesthesiology there and at Thomas Jefferson University in

Philadelphia. Currently, Ray serves as President of Americans For Medical

Advancement (AFMA), a non-profit organization co-founded with his wife, Jean

Swingle Greek, that dedicates itself to educating the public about the

hazards of applying the results of animal testing to humans. He is also the

Scientific Advisor for the National Anti-Vivisection Society (NAVS).

 

Sacred Cows and Golden Geese: The Human Cost of Experiments on Animals was,

in essence, sparked by a family squabble. Jean Swingle Greek, just

beginning her clinical rotations at the University of Wisconsin at Madison

veterinary school, would often come home with questions about how to treat

certain cases. Her husband, Ray Greek, who was at the time teaching

medicine at the University, would reply with the correct answer as it

applied to humans. But, in almost all cases, what cured a human didn’t work

the animals, and vice-versa.

 

This led the Drs. Greek to spend a decade studying comparative anatomy and

physiology, reviewing treatment notes, and perusing scientific literature as

well as medical history books. Jean’s expertise in animal anatomy,

physiology and biochemistry, combined with Ray’s expertise in the same for

humans, allowed this husband/wife team to examine the similarities and

differences between the species with greater depth. Their work resulted in

Sacred Cows and Golden Geese, a book that focuses on the science of this

hotly debated topic.

 

For more information, please call Christine Morrissey at 925-487-4419, email

boaa_action, or visit www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~boaa.

 

Wheelchair Accessible.

 

 

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