http://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-smithfield-foods-organs-idUSKBN17E0AM
“Smithfield Foods, the world’s largest pork producer, has established a separate bioscience unit to expand its role in supplying pig parts for medical uses, with the ultimate goal of selling pig organs for transplantation into humans.”
I guess, you are what you eat. Amiright?6
Would be nice if they gave you a heart and some bacon. Kind of a value deal.
Interesting, I was under the impression that these weren’t ready for long term implantation yet. It’ll be great one day when we can have organs pre made for us in pigs, in case of an unexpected emergency. Really puts to rest some of those distopian future scenarios. Also makes some of the things china does w/ its executed populace less necessary.
Pretty good write up on xenotransplantation:
A brief history of cross-species organ transplantation
David K. C. Cooper, MD, PhD
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3246856/ “Genetically modified pigs offer hope of a limitless supply of organs and cells for those in need of a transplant.”
Its quite ironic when you think of the full cycle of their business model.
a) Smithfield provides bacon to man b) Man eats too much bacon, needs heart transplant c) Smithfield provides pig heart to man lololol