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.

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.

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

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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.

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.

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.

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Is it different from breeding and killing an animal to eat it?

It’s not less ethical than doing it for meat, is my point.

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I’d argue it’s more ethical than meat. You can live a healthy life without meat (provided you’re still getting your protein and B12). You’re kinda dead without a heart.

I agree, while we’re eating meat, feels strange to call the ethics of pig heart harvesting into question.

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