Scientists Grow Pig's Heart On Sheep's Neck

t0rnt0pieces writes "Yahoo! News reports that Nebraska scientists say they successfully grafted a pig's heart to a sheep by manipulating the immune systems of both animals, a step that may soon allow scientists to grow organs for human transplantation. Trials using pig organs to transplant into humans are on the way. Besides hearts, the technology could be applicable to kidney, liver and pancreatic islet cell transplants. Take a look at a picture of one of the sheep here."

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so? It's called empathy & civilisation

[DrSkwid]

when I met my currect GF I didn't kill her child like a male lion would have done when it finds a new mate.

If I was to kill her child and eat it I'm pretty sure most people would regard that as barbaric if not pure evil.

We, as humans, have devised a set of social contracts with regard to how we treat each other, these contracts are backed up by the threat of state violence culmination in execution.

Yet this is a relatively recent state of affairs. 200 years ago if you had any money you had to watch your back and inspect your food lest your relatives decided it was time to inherit.

Living at the expense of others is seen nowadays to be one of the biggest sins of all and yet we exploit our fellow creatures as though their lives mean nothing and their suffering less.

It's bad enough that we factory farm them for food. To me using them as organ factories is an unspeakable horror. One that will shame us the same way slavery shames casts shame upon our forefathers.

Non-white people were considered less than human. That we continue to use 'less than human' to define the right to live unmolested and without suffering pains me.