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.

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.

  • AccidentalLemming@lemmy.worldEnglish
    267·
    1 year ago

    You’re breeding and killing an animal for its organs, and some would find that unethical. But you are doing it to save a human life, so it’s a bit of a trolley problem I suppose.

      • BastingChemina@slrpnk.netEnglish
        22·
        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.

      • MisterFrog@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        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.

      • OneWomanCreamTeam@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        353·
        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.

    • Grass@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      171·
      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.