A month after a pig heart transplant, man works to regain strength with no rejection so far::It’s been a month since a Maryland man became the second person to receive a transplanted heart from a pig — and hospital video released Friday shows he’s working hard to recover.

  • AccidentalLemming@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    Growing genetically modified pigs with human-like hearts to save human lives? The ethics of that are a bit complicated, but from a STEM perspective it’s a really fascinating idea. What a time to be alive.

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      2 years ago

      There’s nothing ethically wrong with this until we consider eating meat unethical. As a society, we’re nowhere near that.

      If you personally don’t want to use this, you can opt out.

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        2 years ago

        eating meat is unethical

        capitalism doesnt care for ethics if government banned meat and news articles said moderately disparaging things about it for a week the entirety of the US would likely change their stance

        because everyone is an AI that parrots what (they think) smarter people say

        if you think im wrong lets talk about how people feel about drugs or literally any problem thats sensationalized. you idiots will believe anything if the news says it.

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          2 years ago

          Ethics are not an absolute and are defined by the society in which they occur.

          YOU think it’s unethical. I happen to agree. We are in the minority.

          And all of that is irrelevant to my point, which is that growing animals for organs is not LESS ethical than growing them for meat, and everyone seems fine with that.

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        2 years ago

        You’re breeding and killing an animal for its organs, and some would find that unethical. But you are doing it to save a human life, so it’s a bit of a trolley problem I suppose.