Comment on A month after a pig heart transplant, man works to regain strength with no rejection so far

• surewhynotlem@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It’s not less ethical than doing it for meat, is my point.

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  • BastingChemina@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Especially since a pig raised for organ transplant probably has way better living conditions than a pig raised for meat in an industrial farm.

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  • MisterFrog@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’d argue it’s more ethical than meat. You can live a healthy life without meat (provided you’re still getting your protein and B12). You’re kinda dead without a heart.

    I agree, while we’re eating meat, feels strange to call the ethics of pig heart harvesting into question.

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  • seliaste@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Except eating meat doesn’t save lives

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• theUnlikely@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Is it different from breeding and killing an animal to eat it?

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  • OneWomanCreamTeam@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I would argue it’s more ethically defendable. There are lots of meatless alternatives to eat. A viable hearts for transplant are scarce and if you need one then you NEED one.

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• Grass@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  That’s literally what the meat industry is though. I guess in americanized cultures more of the animal is seen as waste parts rather than food, but those probably become hot dogs anyways.

  Anyways, the way I see it meat for eating, and even pig organ transplants are both raising a pig to put parts of its body into a human’s body.

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