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Should a human-pig chimera be treated as a person?
There is a well-documented organ shortage throughout the world. For example, 3,000 kidney transplants were made last year in the United Kingdom, but that still left 5,000 people on the waiting list at the end of the period. A lucrative trade in organs has grown up, and transplant tourism has become relatively common… By Julian Savulescu.
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Future generations will look back at these kinds of philosophical conundrums and shake their heads as they order their organs on-line from a printed organ manufacturer (or whatever form of communication will be used then)
Absolutely. Of course, as will be well-known by then, human-animal chimeras should be given the benefit of the doubt. Just don't let them own land, for pity's sake.
Pity about the bacon though.
Honestly I would feel better about eating my bacon if I knew no animal suffered to deliver my enjoyment.
You can always eat veggies and tofu!
They are just not the same without the nitrates! In all seriousness, someday farm animals will be a thing of the past and the meat will be grown, just like veggies and soybeans.
I think it will as well. If they could just figure how to make plants do it and the fruit be meat,all would be good,but I'm not holding my breath here. It's a great fantasy though.
More recently than I care to admit, I was taken in by a rumor about that going around.
Can they be Muslim or Jewish? Just interested.
Don't ask me, ask Margaret Atwood!