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Re:Human-sheep hybrids pave way for diabetes cure and mass o... by tonyedgecombe on Monday February 19, 2018 @02:34AM (#16411341)
It's a good point although if you are really worried about the ethics then the way we rear animals for food dwarfs this.
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Re:Human-sheep hybrids pave way for diabetes cure and mass o... by roryisok on Monday February 19, 2018 @06:06AM (#16412159)
And the ethical concern that often goes unmentioned is hope the rearing of animals for food has left barely any room on earth for wild animals. If anyone can find that biomass breakdown chart it's pretty scary. Something like 90% of the biomass on earth is human food
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Re:Human-sheep hybrids pave way for diabetes cure and mass o... by RobertoG on Monday February 19, 2018 @06:39AM (#16412281)
Do you mean animal biomass? Even so, I thought that the winners there are insects.
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Re:Human-sheep hybrids pave way for diabetes cure and mass o... by oldcynic on Monday February 19, 2018 @09:04AM (#16412898)
It may not be the one you were thinking of, but there's an xkcd for that: https://www.xkcd.com/1338/
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Re:Human-sheep hybrids pave way for diabetes cure and mass o... by roryisok on Monday February 19, 2018 @09:26AM (#16413028)
It actually was that I was thinking of. And now I feel slightly silly for not only getting a key detail wrong but also using a comic as a source of facts.

I'm sure Randall Munroe did his research but still.

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Re:Human-sheep hybrids pave way for diabetes cure and mass o... by DennisP on Monday February 19, 2018 @09:43AM (#16413123)
His main source is a book by Vaclav Smil, he cites it at the bottom of the comic.
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