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UK Approves Human-Pig Embryo Stem-Cell Harvest
An anonymous reader writes "British biologists have received government approval to create the world's first human stem cells from hybrid embryos, part pig, part human. The Warwick Medical School team, led by Justin St. John of the Clinical Sciences Research Institute, was granted the country's third animal-human embryo license from the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, which goes into effect today (July 1)." The above link requires (free) registration; the Telegraph's coverage does not.
I *do* taste like bacon! Why do you ask?
Stressed? Me? Of course not. Stress is what a rubber band feels before it breaks, silly.
Why not half man and half bearpig? That's the approval we're looking for!
I can't wait until my kid takes highschool biology and has to dissect a pig-man embryo.
Sometimes the best solution is to stop wasting time looking for an easy solution.
This is obviously the work of the Daleks.
I can't wait until this technology becomes available on the mass market.
I'm going to release all my hybrids under the GPL because I like to give back to the community.
I, for one, welcome our new Pig-Boy Overlords.
.... It's Leisure Suit Larry on Ladies Night!
Why, without your clothes, you're naked, Miss Dudley!
All this experimenting is going to ruin traditional long pork.
The world is made by those who show up for the job.
Yes. One definitely prevents someone from tasting like bacon.
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He's a Pig man, I tell ya Jerry, I saw him!
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Pfft. This isn't that new.
I just got pulled over and tasered by a pig-man just this afternoon.
"The Young Family" by Patricia Piccinini brings new meaning to the insult "pigdog".
will it be Kosher?
I've only leafed through the brochures myself, but the wild life tour sounds good.
Blank until
Go and boil your bottom, sons of a silly person. I blow my nose at you, so-called Arthur King, you and all your silly English k-nnnnniggets. Thpppppt! Thppt! Thppt!
GALAHAD:
What a strange person.
ARTHUR:
Now look here, my good man--
FRENCH GUARD:
I don't wanna talk to you no more, you empty headed animal food trough wiper! I fart in your general direction! Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!
Where are we going and why are we in a handbasket?
Yes, and don't forget about the residual pig midichlorians that they would still have.
They get the 30 minute orgasms, and they have the hands... well, you get the picture.
They also get to eat all they want, and they probably don't mind being called "pigs".
That's because our diets are very similar (omniverous) as well as many aspects of our biochemistry.
Personally after civilization falls I'll be eating the vegans first though. Grain and veggie fed free range vegan...mmmm.
We got em here in Phoenix. They're 300lbs and ride around on electric scooters.
How dare you consider humans in the same class as animals! After all, we humans have created a utopia and achieved world peace, unlike those animals that can't find the decency to use a bathroom.
I have nothing to say.
Most vegans I know lean left politically and don't believe in guns. Easy pickins!
If you believe the feminazis, men are pigs already.
Circumcision is child abuse.
For my wife to call me a "pig"
So are lawyers, doesn't stop them getting rights.
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...And isn't it odd that these blasphemous crimes against nature are spearheaded by a man with the saintly name of Justin St. John?