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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Maryland team last year performed the world’s first transplant of a heart from a genetically altered pig into another dying man.
What is this sentence? The word “another” implies either this man wasn’t the first or that a “genetically altered pig” is legally considered dying man.
The man in the first four paragraphs of the article, Lawrence Faucette, is the second dying man to receive a genetically modified pig heart. The first dying man, referred to in your quote, only survived two months but the heart failed, possibly due to a virus in the heart that came from the pig.
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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.
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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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.
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.
Is it different from breeding and killing an animal to eat it?
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.
Easy just grow cabbages with human-like hearts to appease the vegans.
I WAWNT DAYT ONE!
South Park certainly didn’t hold back on that episode 😂
Man, and I thought I had bacon in my heart
Same guy gonna rush to the doctor after his heart rate hits 200 while staring at some mud
Has he gained any pig-like superpowers so far?
“Spider Pig, Spider Pig, Does whatever a Spider Pig does…”
I’m surprised and mildly disappointed no one else commented this.
What is this sentence? The word “another” implies either this man wasn’t the first or that a “genetically altered pig” is legally considered dying man.
The man in the first four paragraphs of the article, Lawrence Faucette, is the second dying man to receive a genetically modified pig heart. The first dying man, referred to in your quote, only survived two months but the heart failed, possibly due to a virus in the heart that came from the pig.
Thank you for your explanation. I did not follow correctly.