• LughOPM
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    1798 months ago

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

    • @Chip_Rat
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      -178 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?

      • @[email protected]
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        298 months ago

        The article answers your question

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

        • @Chip_Rat
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          158 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.

      • Cethin
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        98 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.

    • @[email protected]
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      -228 months ago

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

      • @[email protected]
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        598 months ago

        Slaughter them for one last time and spare their future generations by removing their lineage from existence. Nbd

        • @Daft_ish
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          That’s straight ignorance. You don’t abandon a curated breed of livestock based on some short term innovation. Humanity’s dependence on these types animals is older than recorded history. You would doom us all if the technology fails and we can not go back to traditional methods.

          • @Gabu
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            108 months ago

            Oh, poor little humans, imagine having to live by *checks notes* eating vegetables.

          • @[email protected]
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            38 months ago

            Sorry chief, I’m unable to fathom the logic underlying this comment.

            Do you think that the day the first stem cell sausage hits the supermarket shelves pigs will be deleted from this reality?

            You’ll still be able to buy sausages made with real flesh in 50 years, just that between now and then alternatives will emerge that are tastier, healthier, and cheaper.

            Steam trains still exist but you don’t drive one to work every day because they’re shit.

            • @Daft_ish
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              28 months ago

              I was responding to a post advocating for letting the breed die out. Just. Look. Up. I geuss?

      • Demosthememes
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        We could let the pigs run the farm, then document what happens.

        • @Jarix
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          They did already heress the document

          • threelonmusketeers
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            28 months ago

            I had heard of this story many times before, but had never actually read it. Thanks.

      • @[email protected]
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        128 months ago

        Eat the last generation and put a couple in zoos, like we did with all species once they are no longer useful…

      • @Matriks404
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        68 months ago

        We can keep them as cute animals :3

      • @buddascrayon
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        38 months ago

        They still need the pigs to cultivate the cells to make the sausage.

        • @[email protected]
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          08 months ago

          No.

          They need one cell, once.

          They can than grow that one cell into an infinite number of cells.

      • bufalo1973
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        28 months ago

        Animal reservoir? Instead of millions of pigs sent to the slaughter, thousands in free range zones where they can have their stem cells harvested without suffering. And “train” the rest to live on their original place.

        • Cethin
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          38 months ago

          Yeah, not a good idea. There are wild hogs, but our farm pigs are not good for the wild. They go feral and become giant and dangerous and do a lot of damage, and they also breed like crazy. It’s actually a really big issue. These animals are meant for the farm and nothing more.