‘If you have pigs with partly human brains…’
May 18th, 2016Am I reading the news, or the new D&D Monster Manual?
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Also, as my sons reminded me: Minecraft Zombie Pigman:
Via: NPR:
“If you have pigs with partly human brains you would have animals that might actually have consciousness like a human,” Newman says. “It might have human-type needs. We don’t really know.”
That possibility raises new questions about the morality of using the animals for experimentation. Another concern is that the stem cells could form human sperm and human eggs in the chimeras.
“If a male chimeric pig mated with a female chimeric pig, the result could be a human fetus developing in the uterus of that female chimera,” Newman says. Another possibility is the animals could give birth to some kind of part-human, part-pig creature.
“That possibility raises new questions about the morality of using the animals for experimentation.”
This in only a problem for those that have morality regarding using humans for experimentation. For those that are already involved in human experimentation there is no moral ambiguity.
Wow, right out of Oryx and Crake. Nice call, Margaret Atwood.