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Tuesday, December 09, 2025

Why is it considered ethical to put pig organs in humans but not to grow human organs in pigs?

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"Everybody clapped." Leonardo Riella tells "Babbage" about the first time his team transplanted a pig organ into a human

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-- The Economist (@economist.com) Nov 8, 2025 at 2:20 PM

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... As a bioethicist and philosopher who has spent years studying the ethics of using organs grown in animals " including serving on an NIH-funded national working group examining oversight for research on human-animal chimeras " I was perplexed by the decision.

The ban assumed the danger was making pigs too human. Yet regulators now seem comfortable making humans a little more pig.

Why is it considered ethical to put pig organs in humans but not to grow human organs in pigs? ...


#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-12-08 09:38 PM | Reply

They might have to treat Pigs more humanely.

Especially if the Pigs started acting more human like.

Ethics.

It's so inconvenient.

It's Far easier to be like Israel and just treat Human Beings like Vermin to begin. With. Israeli Palestinian Organ Harvesting comes to mind immediately.

I'm sure that's the current Administration's preference.

#2 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2025-12-09 09:53 AM | Reply

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