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Lethal Laws
By Alix Fano

For the last 150 years, chemicals have been tested on animals for the alleged purpose of protecting the public from their dangerous effects. Lethal Laws reveals that using animals as human surrogates is not only unethical, it is bad science. Alix Fano provides a meticulous analysis of the technical and scientific problems that have plagued animal tests for decades, but which have not been forcefully challenged until now. She shows how animal testing has been used as an alibi to allow the continued use of thousands of toxic chemicals.

In a field dominated by male voices, this is a pioneering work by a woman that effectively demonstrates the causal link between animal testing and environmental degradation, and the subsequent deterioration of human health.

"A thoroughly documented, scientific indictment of the current addiction to animal testing. It makes a compelling case for companies to wake up to the non-animal technologies that already exist, and get off the animal testing treadmill."
—David Phillips, executive Director, Earth Island Institute, San Francisco

"Cogently argued and well researched, Ms Fano's analysis is a 'must read' for anyone involved in environmental policy or public health."
—Andrew Kimbrell, author of The Human Body Shop

"A grand synthesis of ideas and science that critically reviews a central dogma in toxicological research. Alix Fano's book may prove to be the best intellectual treatise for the critical position she puts forward."
—Sheldon Krimsky, co-author of Agricultural Biotechnology and the Environment

"Helps reawaken the ancient idea that other species are not merely objects for human exploitation and experimentation, they are members of the Earth Family."
—Vandana Shiva author of Staying Alive

234 pages