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Scientists Create Sheep That Are 15 Percent Human
anthemaniac writes "Professor Esmail Zanjani and colleagues at the University of Nevada-Reno have created sheep that are 15 percent human at the cellular level. Half the organs in the sheep are human. The idea, of course, is to harvest those organs to transplant into human patients. From the article: 'He has already created a sheep liver which has a large proportion of human cells and eventually hopes to precisely match a sheep to a transplant patient, using their own stem cells to create their own flock of sheep.' One scientists worries, however, that the work could lead to new viruses that cross from animals to humans."
The French.
Thank you, thank you. I'll be here all week.
cue the "OMG ur playing GODZORS!!!!1!1~" comments from dipshit bible thumpers.
Listen p*ssy. I'm sure your the same homo that posted earlier about alf's boner and you just want to remain anonymous fo
This 'research' carries the assumption that we are fundamentally different and superior to other life. We're not, and in fact I think this shows that we're inferior .
... we no longer need to eat meat ... I'm talking about hunters .
Hunting animals for food is a part of one of the oldest, sacred games around. Fair enough. For the vegetarians who protest that we don't need to eat meat, I agree
Farming animals for food is taking this sacred game and twisting it into something that lacks both sanctity and game. Large-scale intensive farming is particularly twisted.
But farming animals and implanting tissue so we can harvest organs is fucking horrendous. All these people who 'need' new organs should have taken better care of the ones they started out with. Most, if not all, of their ailments are related to their excessive consumption of meat, combined with their consumption of artificial pesticides & fertilizers, their proximity to industrial waste, etc. Some people think they have the right to abuse their body, their environment, and everything else they encounter, and then demand that animals are farmed, mutilated, and sacrificed to provide them with 'backup' organs. Bullshit! You get one body. If you fuck it up, hope that someone donates their organs. These animals aren't donating anything. This is taking our abuse of animals WAY too far.
Naah. Let's do them justice, homeschool them on Creationism ;) They are sheeple, after all... we wouldn't want them to start thinking on their own.
My blog. Good stuff (when I remember to update it). Read it.
1 - beats up women and tells them to "put ice on it"
2 - fscks with anything except it's wife (chelsea DOES look more like webb hubble)
3 - fscks with the taxpayer's monies
4 - fires ALL the attorneys; not just 8
5 - drains the military
6 - runs-away from conflicts AFTER committing troops
7 - ups the taxes
8 - universal healthcare for the shiftless and useless
9 - "fsck all; as long as we get ours"
10 - 'aspirin factories'
11 - "ah cain't recall"
12 - sticks his finger at camera lenses instead of up his daughter
No doubt about THOSE, dimwit.
it is admittedly disproportionate representation, since the true believers are still checking the Bible to figure out which of the Internets to sign up for. Right, so that would mean that you are talking to yourselves? Stupidity tends to be the result of a combination of genetic factors and upbringing where the former tends to have the most pronounced effect. It has nothing to do with what you believe in. The internet is an echo chamber where the emptiest pots make the most noise. This is precisely what I was was trying to get at. The most vocal atheists on the internet also seem to have the least amount of personal knowledge of the religions they attack. The fear you feel right now is fuelled by your own ignorance.
Jesus was a compassionate social conservative who called individuals to sin no more.