Another class has passed since last time, and I still need to catch with reading. Currently, I am doing a short presentation about genetic engineering in the book, and the examples I have used is the pigoons. Of course, there are many others in the book that I mights have used, like wolvogs or rakunks. However, pigoons do seem to be the one type of animal that is written most about, and it is easier to imagine the pigoon, the giant pink pig with multiple organs that humans can easily take for human transplant. It does feel very imhumane to used animals as factories for which we produce our organs, but at the same time, humans are never merciful towards animals. How many people out of the total population are vegetarians? How many ate some form of meat? Those meat came from animals that we have killed, and to me, death is worse than anything else, including being used as an organ producing machine. What are your opinions?
I find pigoons bit weird to imagine, growing and extracting human organs from pigoons... The pigoons are being used like machines that produce human organs! However, the fact that it can save many lives can't be ignored.. This is being experimented in our world too. Should we continue with this? Hard question eh?
ReplyDeleteIs using pig organs for human transplant any more immoral than eating the pigs themselves? Using a quote from Jimmy's father, in the end, they're just proteins. If we can justify meat eating and animal slaughtering, then the same people can, and will, justify these actions.
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