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		GiorgioG on Jan 10, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: U.S. surgeons transplant pig heart into human pati... > what are the ethical implications for raising them with the intention to harvest their organs, if any? We slaughter more than 100m pigs per year in the US for food. I don’t think a few more million are going to cause a moral dilemma.

Sporktacular on Jan 11, 2022 [–]

It's vivisection, but hopefully less painfully/traumatically than some slaughterhouses.

kgin on Jan 12, 2022 | [–]

There isn’t any propofol at slaughterhouses

Sporktacular on Jan 13, 2022 | | [–]

Yeah, those experiment animals are so lucky...

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