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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 2200939" data-attributes="member: 2067">Show me a sheep that can grasp the nature of subjectivity, or a cow that can moo of freedom, and we'll talk.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> (a) PETA is probably already crapping themselves in fury over this. "GROWING ANIMALS FOR HUMAN USE?!?!?! ARGH!"(b) Stem Cells here aren't so much an issue because they're not taken from fetuses, they're taken from living adult humans, which are copasetic with most who object to the other kind.(c) The hand-waving that goes on about the ethics is eminantely humorous to me. Because the sheep aren't talking back, and still behave like sheep, we call them sheep. Because we try to keep the neurological qualities down to a minimum, they are still beasts, and not humans. I guess I have to thank the forces of history that we didn't have this advanced manipulation when we still considered people with different colored skin chattel...Ethics? From a perspective, you are allowing beasts to become partially human for the simple purpose of harvesting them if anything happens to you....it's a complex web of crazy we weave.</blockquote>