News stories about the latest pig kidney xenotransplantation stunt often leave readers in the dark about the truth behind this so-called “transplant” procedure.Įxperimenters used a brain-dead patient on a ventilator, not a person with kidney disease. Xenotransplantation-the Frankenscience of transplanting organs from one species to another-is nothing more than a vanity project that seeks to grab sensational headlines. What Is Xenotransplantation? Just How Bad Is It for Humans and Other Animals? Surgeons successfully transplant a PIG KIDNEY into a human for the first time Humans have no right to steal other sentient beings’ organs for our own benefit.
The only right thing to do-and the healthiest option for humans-is to leave pigs and other living, feeling beings alone and seek cures using modern science. Pigs, for example, communicate using specific oinks, grunts, or squeals when trying to woo a mate or express hunger-and mother pigs sing to their babies while nursing, just as many human moms do. Animals aren’t toolsheds to be raided-they’re complex, intelligent individuals. The risk of transmitting unknown viruses during such procedures is real and, in the time of a pandemic, should be enough to end these studies forever. Reports regarding the first heart and kidney transplants from genetically altered pigs into and onto humans should serve as reminders that animal-to-human transplants are unethical, dangerous, and a tremendous waste of resources that could be used to fund research that might actually help humans. Presumed consent laws and preventive health measures will save more lives than these headline-getting surgeries ever will. To talk about such procedures as though they were anything other than cruel-to animals and to humans waiting for organs-perpetuates the myth that xenotransplantation will someday be practical. The idea that this surgery was groundbreaking is hogwash.
#First heart from genetically altered pig update#
Update (March 16, 2022): David Bennett, a man whose heart was replaced with the heart of a pig two months ago, has died. Xenotransplantation should be relegated to the garbage heap of arrogant, speciesist vanity projects that harm more than they help.
Presumed consent laws and preventive health measures would save more lives than these headline-grabbing surgeries ever could. alone-the public has little appetite for experimenters’ folly-prone, blind tinkering that wastes lives, time, and money, while potentially exposing the public to new viruses that mutate as they jump from species to species. As the world crawls out of the COVID-19 pandemic-which has caused 1 million deaths in the U.S. Update (May 5, 2022): The heart that was stolen from a genetically modified pig and then transplanted into David Bennett Sr.-the world’s first human recipient of a pig’s heart-was infected with porcine cytomegalovirus, underscoring what PETA has been saying all along: The risk of transmitting viruses that originated in animals through xenotransplantation is real and a real killer.
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