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Re:U.S. surgeons transplant pig heart into human patient by radu_floricica on Tuesday January 11, 2022 @01:47AM (#29888386)
If this happens, I hope it happens decades after we switch to factory produced meat.

There is a multiple orders of magnitude more benefit from using animals for medical research and medical care than from using them as food. I realize our psychology makes us empathize with whatever case we have in front of us right now, but when it comes to orders of magnitude difference and human lives, I'd much prefer we better control our empathy.

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Re:U.S. surgeons transplant pig heart into human patient by Sporktacular on Wednesday January 12, 2022 @10:46PM (#29916615)
Pragmatically, sure but then every species using HN shares our bias. Doing right would mean trying to transcend it. But am not sure we have to suppress our empathy just because we're being pragmatic.
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