I magine a human mind trapped in a pig’s body: unable to speak, unable to defend itself against its destiny of being killed in surgery and stripped of key organs.
It sounds like science fiction, but that was the scenario suggested by ethicists following a controversial experiment published in 2017. Stem cells from human beings were inserted into a pig embryo, so the embryo became a kind of crossbreed between a human and a pig. The embryo was terminated before it was born.
Organs to order
Why did they do it? The goal was entirely altruistic — a first
