Title: A Specious Endeavor
Product review: The folly of this book is that Ms. Rudacille paints it as a matter of Animal Research vs. Animal Protection, when the real dichotomy (not that animal research doesn't torture animals, because it does) is Animal Research vs. Good Science. This book presupposes that animal research helps people, which evidence shows is faulty at best. 92% of all new drugs that pass animal testing go on to fail in human clinical tests because they are too toxic or ineffective. Of the remaining 8% that pass the human tests, HALF are later withdrawn from the market because of side effects (sometimes lethal) that animal tests did not predict. That means FOUR PERCENT of drugs that pass animal tests stay on the market (and who knows how many humans they kill or maim in the process)!If you want to read a more accurate work, check out "Sacred Cows and Golden Geese: The Human Cost of Experiments on Animals" by Dr. C. Ray Greek and Jean Swingle Greek, DVM.
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