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Re:U.S. surgeons transplant pig heart into human patient by GiorgioG on Monday January 10, 2022 @05:20PM (#29883624)
> 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.

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Re:U.S. surgeons transplant pig heart into human patient by Sporktacular on Monday January 10, 2022 @08:49PM (#29886117)
It's vivisection, but hopefully less painfully/traumatically than some slaughterhouses.
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Re:U.S. surgeons transplant pig heart into human patient by kgin on Wednesday January 12, 2022 @01:45PM (#29911143)
There isn’t any propofol at slaughterhouses
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Re:U.S. surgeons transplant pig heart into human patient by Sporktacular on Thursday January 13, 2022 @12:11AM (#29917106)
Yeah, those experiment animals are so lucky...
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