Pig-to-Human Transplants On Their Way

cscx writes: "From the folks who brought you Dolly the cloned sheep, come genetically modified cloned pigs which they claim may eventually be able to donate their organs to humans for transplant usage. Who knows, we may make that mark on your driver's license obsolete after all."

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question for the jewish folks

[Afrosheen]

Is this gonna be kosher or not?

Dual use pigs.

[coryboehne]

MMMM, Bacon.... drool :p~~~~

Now after I block my veins with fatty deposits, and destroy my heart, the same pig can now give me a new heart? Awesome....

Re:Dual use pigs.

[unicron]

Make the pig pay for your mistakes, that's real friggin compassionate, man.

=)

Re:Dual use pigs.

[Frank of Earth]

Ok.. I have to quote the Simpson's episode:

Homer: Are you saying you're never going to eat any animal again? What about bacon?
Lisa: No.
Homer: Ham?
Lisa: No!
Homer: Pork chops?
Lisa: Dad, those all come from the same animal!
Homer: Heh heh heh... ooh... yeah... right, Lisa. A wonderful... magical animal.

Courtesy of http://www.kerp.net/homer.html

Re:organs

[rbgaynor]

Unless, of course, you are the pig...

Remember the mammoth...

[Scaebor]

Forget the pigs, what I'm waiting for that mammoth to be cloned. I may need a backpack to carry around my heart, but by God they made 'em good back in the old days.

Pigs

[infornogr]

I can understand the medical benefits of taking organs from pigs and putting them into people... but if we keep doing this... won't we eventually run out of politicians and CEOs?

Re:What effect will this have on the Earth?

[Anonymous Coward]

Fuck the planet.

Got it? Let's hear that again, in case anyone thinks I'm kidding.

FUCK the planet.

When it comes right down to it, human beings are the only living creatures that matter one whit. Every last square inch of the "precious" planet should be completely subjugated to the support of the Human Race, as should every last square inch of every other habitable planet we should ever happen across. Why? Real simple - we're the only intelligent life known to exist.

(Pre-emptive statement of forthcoming weak, snotty comment:)

Hippie: Yeah, YOU sound REALLY intelligent!

Me: Fuck you, hippie. You're sitting on the corpses of millions upon millions of people who died of tooth decay, compound fractures and measles so that their descendents might someday obtain some (unfathomable to them) measure of control over their destiny, let alone of the natural world. And here you sit, in your self-important pachouli stink, with the dipshit stupidity to think that any insect, bird, fish or tree holds one billionth the value of a single human life. Pick the human being you love most in the world - pick yourself, if you wish. Now imagine, say, any tree on earth. I give you a choice: Either the person you love most in the world may live, or the tree may live. The other dies, right now. Which do you choose? ...Yeah, that's what I thought.

Overpopulation? FEH. We could support ten times the current population, and ulimately will, whether you cry about it or not. Run out of farmland? Build hydroponic factories, fifty times the size of the Sears Tower. Run out of lakewater? Mine the polar ice caps. Run out of ice? Drain the ocean. Run out of ocean? Harvest the atmosphere. Run out of energy? Pebble-bed nuclear reactors. Nuclear waste? Dump it in a salt dome, until fusion and antimatter reactors go online. Run out of everything? Find a new solar system.

A thousand years from now, the planet will resemble nothing so much as a combination of a global golf course, and Courascant. The Earth Firsters and all of their moldy ilk will be remembered as nothing more than a curious kook-sect with a fetish for wiping their asses with leaves.