WATCH: Dr. Katherine Roe and Dr. Juan Carlos G. Marvizón debate whether we should ban animal experiments

Do you think it’s OK to sacrifice a mouse’s life to cure a disease? What if it were a monkey? A cow? Or a dog?

For a long time, research on animals has been a crucial component of scientific and medical innovation. Testing on animals has led to the development of the world’s first vaccine. And drugs used to combat cancer, malaria and HIV/AIDS and many other illnesses would not have been possible without animal research. But today, with all of our technological advancements, is animal testing necessary—or unnecessarily cruel? 

On the Doha Debates Podcast, Dr. Katherine Roe and Dr. Juan Carlos G. Marvizón debate the ethics of animal testing.

Doha Debates Podcast is a production of Doha Debates and FP Studios. This episode is hosted by Mariya Karimjee.