... , farm animals, dogs, cats, and nonhuman primates, are used in animal testing annually worldwide ("Soundearth.com," 2010). These animals are used in an effort to test for the safety and efficacy of products for humans. The Environmental Protection Agency and the Food and Drug Administration require animal testing for the marketing and distribution of chemicals, vaccines ... simulate the human body adequately, even though the anatomy of some animals is very similar to humans. Given that both have very complex biological systems, it is often difficult to test all drugs and treatments. Addit...

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... aid the large cost of animals experimentation.(5) Although it has been proven, that in many cases, rats and mice are not an accurate subject to test medicines on, their popularity has only grown larger.(6) Mechanize (a travel sickness drug) caused severe deformities in rats, but not in humans, whereas Thalidomide ... no reaction in rats but cause deformities in humans.(9) This is only one of the many cases where mice and rats have been found as faulty test subjects. Dogs have a cardiovascular and respiratory system similar to that of a human. Cats have a neurological system similar to ou...

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