In an experiment that raises bioethical issues, researchers in China have generated a blueprint of a humanized kidney in a pig embryo

Edit: Surprised at all the vegans in this thread. I didn’t think there were so many of you. I’m glad you care so much about animal rights, that you’re willing to forego eating them and using products made from them. If you’re not vegan and have moral objections for this, maybe you should look at yourself first and all the animal abuse you sanction by eating animals and using animal products. Did you know dairy cows have to be pregnant to produce milk? They’re artificially inseminated throughout most of their lives. I hope everyone complaining about this also complains about ice cream and cheese. Or else they would be hypocrites who just want to blame others but never look at themselves.

  • @scarabic@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6•1 year ago

    It’s interesting that we go to all the trouble of farming human organs in animals specifically because we’re okay killing animals. Surely it would work way better to farm human organs in human embryos. But we go about it sideways because that’s how much we don’t give a shit about animals.

    • @Jax@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      10•1 year ago

      Weird take, it’s like you’re conflating acceptable losses and apathy.

      Scientists would use human embryos, if given the ability to. Unfortunately there are people who believe that life happens the moment a man injects his baby batter into a woman’s love tunnel.

      These are why people kill animals for this, not because they “don’t give a shit about animals”.

            • @bobman@unilem.orgOPEnglish
              1•1 year ago

              Hey man, humans are perception. If they can’t perceive or even have the functions necessary to think, are they really alive?

              If you think a ‘soul’ is born whenever an egg meets a sperm, you may have a point. It’s just… why do you believe that? What evidence do you have so other people believe it too?

              If you think ‘life is sacred’ and all that nonsense, hey bro. Everytime you wash your hands you’re killing bacteria. Every time you cut the grass, guess how much death you’re causing? A lot. And I guarantee the organisms you’re killing are way more perceptive than a human embryo.

              This is only a difficult discussion because a sizable amount of the population still believes in fairytales.