• Chip_Rat@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Except for the pigs raised for stem cells? Which I think somehow is an even more distopian concept… Maybe just a different flavour.

    Note: I am actually in the comments looking for the answer to my question “how many stem cells?”. Like per lb or whatever… What’s the ratio?

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      7 months ago

      The article answers your question

      It involves nothing more than pulling a single cell once from a pig without causing harm.

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        7 months ago

        Thank you. I read the article, I swear, before posting. (Literally stopped what I was typing after I read my own statement “looking in the comments”) Not sure how I missed that.

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      7 months ago

      The whole “stem cells from a fetus” thing certain groups try to spread is false. Technically stems cells can come from a fetus, but they generally don’t. We even have methods to turn regular cells into stem cells I’m pretty sure. This doesn’t do anything more than taking cell(s) from a pig one time and they can be grown on their own potentially forever. No other pig needs to be involved.