A lonely rat, huddles in the corner of it’s cage, constantly in fear, awaiting the ship of fate to sail down and pick it up. Test tubes, beakers, pipettors and flasks seem like a whole complete world towering around the cage amongst the gloves, pens, paper and safety glasses. The scent of disinfectant lingers in the chemical filled air. As it sleeps, it tries to block out the squeals of pain echoing from all …showed first 75 words of 670 total…

…showed last 75 words of 670 total…anatomy is not identical to that of ours. There have been cases where drugs and products that have had harmless effects on animals, but have caused major defects in humans and vice-versa. For example, some examples of ‘thoroughly tested’ drugs that have injured or killed humans include Amydopyrine which was used as a pain killer but was discovered to cause blood disease and Chlomycin used for typhoid but caused leukemia, cardiovascular collapse and therefore death.