Animals are being brutalized in order to protect humanity.   That’s the chilling view of Green MEP Ciarán Cuffe who says testing on animals for scientific or medical purposes should be banned and fast. Ciarán joins us on the show to debate this issue with Tomás Ryan Associate Professor in the School of Biochemistry and Immunology at Trinity College Dublin.

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