The Ethics of Animal Testing
Organ transplants, insulin medication and pacemakers are all medical breakthroughs trialled on animals. As per 2016, Australia was testing on 6 million animals per year. How important is it that we test on animals and what protections do these animals have?
Dr Julian Koplin, a Lecturer in Bioethics at Monash University, joined us this morning to discuss these morally ambiguous questions.