One month after experimental pig heart transplant, doctors say they see no signs of rejection or infection | CNN
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One month after an experimental procedure to transplant the heart of a genetically modified pig into a patient with end-stage heart disease, doctors say the heart is functioning on its own and shows no signs of rejection.

One month after experimental pig heart transplant, doctors say they see no signs of rejection or infection::One month after an experimental procedure to transplant the heart of a genetically modified pig into a patient with end-stage heart disease, doctors say the heart is functioning on its own and shows no signs of rejection.

  • kinther@lemmy.worldEnglish
    188·
    9 months ago

    Cool technology, but kind of fucked up we grow animals with spare parts for us only to take them out and kill them. Once this gets to the point we can grow them in a petri dish the ethical concerns should no longer be an issue.

    • Nevoic@lemm.eeEnglish
      181·
      8 months ago

      If you’re not a vegan this is a super weird take. Hell, as a vegan myself, I don’t have a massive issue with trading pig lives for human lives. Yes it’d be ideal if we did it in other ways, but there’s an actually decent argument that it’s permissible and even good to save humans by killing animals.

      Killing pigs because “mmm bacon” though? Yeah that’s a bad reason. Pleasure doesn’t permit suffering, most humans understand that unlees it’s their own pleasure they’re talking about.

      • kinther@lemmy.worldEnglish
        21·
        8 months ago

        Given the hivemind that are social media websites and their tendency to lean toward “mmm bacon”, you never know who will react when you talk about the ethics behind killing animals. Even planting the seed of considering them not just bio-bags of spare organs could lead someone to question their consumption of meat down the road.

    • SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      14·
      8 months ago

      I think it’s much less fucked than growing them just for food we don’t actually need to eat, just luxury. And we do that on an absurdly large scale.