October Meme, Days 26 to 29

[thismaz]

I realise I have been MIA for a few days again. This is now a pattern. So, catch-up time.

26 If your heart were damaged beyond repair, but you could regain your health for a few more years by getting a heart transplant from a genetically engineered pig, would you? Yes. My objection to genetically modified crops is the impact upon the native

Comments

[kazzy_cee]

There are some very interesting questions in this meme - often I have to think for a bit before I answer.

[thismaz]

Yes, some of them are very silly, but some of them are very interesting.

[hobbituk]

Lol I could put on the 40lb easily - just a bit more than I put on in lockdown. The money wouldn't be worth it - I am so cross with myself because my knees hurt again and my walking distance has shrunk dramatically....

[thismaz]

My sympathies. You had done so well, before. I cheer you on for getting back to were you want to be again.

[sparrow2000]

I love Much Ado.

[thismaz]

It is such fun.

[mistress_tien]

I agree with you on the transplants 100%. GMO pigs raised for transplants would be a miracle. I know of two people two died because they couldn't get a heart transplant. And I agree about both GMO animals and plants--currently both are being designed with genes from other species and genera, which terrifies me. Things like that should not be in the wild (which pigs raised for transplants never would be).

[thismaz]

Yes, that's it exactly.

[tabaqui]

I'm okay with pig hearts. I wish we'd just figure out cloning already, so we could just clone the perfect pig/chicken/sheep/cow and have rows and rows of cloned meat growing on some kind of scaffold, no brain or anything, just...meat to eat. No more factory farms, no more animals suffering, no more overgrazing and no more clear cutting for graze land. Bison roaming free and free-range, happy chickens for eggs (or maybe close an egg...system? track? whatever? and let it lay eggs).

ANYway. :D

[thismaz]

Vat grown animal flesh might appear in the next decade or so. Last I heard, the problem at the moment is physically stimulating it (like muscles in use) as it grows, to give it texture.
On the other hand, there is the whole eating insect protein thing.

[tabaqui]

You'd think a simple electrical current would fix that?

And no, forever no, on bug protein. NO.
And no friggin' 'cockroach milk', either.

[thismaz]

I don't know. It was a while ago I saw an item on the television about "The Worlds Most Expensive Burger" when the fact that someone was making progress was being demoed.

If the insects are raised in clean and hygienic conditions, I don't see they problem, really *g*