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A month after a pig heart transplant, man works to regain strength with no rejection so far (www.ctvnews.ca)

submitted 1 year ago by L4s@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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A month after a pig heart transplant, man works to regain strength with no rejection so far::It's been a month since a Maryland man became the second person to receive a transplanted heart from a pig

and hospital video released Friday shows he's working hard to recover.

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[+] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world -60 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I definitely don't value humans enough to use an animal as an incubator for a heart. It's cruel and extremely unethical. Nothing will ever convince me otherwise that animals don't also deserve life just the same as humans.

[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's good for your beliefs, but a useless argument for anyone who eats meat. Raising and slaughtering a pig to provide a human a heart is even more useful than raising one for its meat, and chances are that the one raised for its heart was taken much better care of before being killed.

[–] xpinchx@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This only really tracks if you're vegan, which you may be. But if we slaughter a million pigs for meat is that really any different? We already incubate them for bacon, are you really so against this that you'd let a family member die than slaughter a pig for its heart?

[–] KevonLooney@lemm.ee 19 points 1 year ago

He's not that against it. He's just posturing online. Very few people, maybe 0.1%, would choose a pig's life over their grandmother's. (No I don't care if your grandma was a dick. Pick another beloved family member or friend.)

[–] jennraeross@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

Even as a vegan, it’s pretty up in the air imo. It’s well established that if your life saving medication contains animal products, you take the medication. This is more complicated for sure, but an argument can probably be made. I’m not sure what I feel about it.