"It is not as if, 'Oh my
God, all of a sudden we are doing something that is crazy.'”
Samuel Packer,
chief of medical ethics at Northwell Health in New York.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/afp/article-3724786/US-fund-research-create-mixed-human-animal-embryos.html
Do
we really want animals with human brains, or humans with the brains
of animals, even if it might help find cures for various maladies and
diseases?
Let's
listen to what two dogs have to say:
Butch:
Well,
have you heard?
Daisy:
Heard
what?
Butch:
About
the research
that mixes human cells into animal embryos.
Daisy:
You've
got to be kidding?
Butch:
Nope.
Listen to what
Stuart
Newman, a researcher at New York Medical College, has said:
"Let's
say that we have pigs with human brains and they are wondering why we
are doing experiments on them."
"And
then, what if we had human bodies with animal brains, and then you
say, 'Well they are not really humans, we can do experiments on them
and harvest organs from them.'"
Daisy:
But
we're dogs, not pigs.
Butch:
We're
in the same boat as the pigs; and we have about the same
intelligence.
Daisy:
I
like who I am.
I
like who you are.
I
sure don't want your brain or mine harvested. Maybe they can just
use pigs, since they eat them.
Butch:
But
if we get human brains, we could watch TV and play Pokemon go.
Daisy:
Yeah!
P.S.
Here are two older posts on the same subject:
http://madplatonews.blogspot.com/2010/07/synthetic-life-forms.html
IT'S
ABOUT RENEWABLE RESOURCES AND CHIMERAS
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