05/01/2025
Rule #1, just because you can doesn’t mean you should. This is coming from MIT (insert adjective) stating “ethically sourced” human clones called bodyoids can act as spare bodies for organ transplant, lab testing, and as a meat source. Maybe even the singularity as portayed in “Altered Carbon”. This must be a “click-bait” article. The other angle is an emphasis on animal rights versus animal welfare, there is a difference.
“The article also points to artificial uteruses and other breakthroughs that could potentially open pathways to lab-grown foetuses, which the scientists hope would also end the suffering of animals used for testing and meat.”
Whether farmed for meat or used as subjects in medical research, animals are deeply sentient beings, whose suffering remains an ever-looming ethical frontier. Besides, breakthroughs in lab testing don’t always carry over to humans. Scientists have proposed a radical dual solution: artificially-gro...