• Lugh@futurology.todayOPM
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    8 months ago

    Good news for pigs. I’ll be delighted to see factory farming disappear and be replaced by tech like this.

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      8 months ago

      Yeah but what are we gonna do with all these pigs then? Uplift them and invite them into our society?

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      8 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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        8 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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          8 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.