Some research institutions in the United States are moving ahead with attempts to grow human tissue inside of pigs and sheep with the goal of creating hearts, livers, or other organs needed for transplants. The ethical debate over inserting human stem cells into days-old animal embryos, then gestating them in female livestock, is because the experiments could blur the line between the species. What would happen, for instance, if those animals “cognitive state” was altered by placing human brain cells in these creatures?
While none of the animals, so far, have been brought to term, questions still remain about the “cutting-edge” technologies. Mixing human stem cells with those of animals is still banned by U.S. government funding agencies like the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Harvesting human organs from animals and transplanting them in human beings is the ultimate goal of the controversial research. “As a precaution, researchers working with farm-animal chimeras haven’t yet permitted any to be born, but instead are collecting fetuses in order to gather preliminary information about how great the contribution of human cells is to the animals’ bodies.”
The United States does not have a federal law restricting the creation of chimeras. Scientists are trying to discover the best conditions for human cells to create organs within the animals. The research injects human cells into the animal embryo at the earliest stage. They then specialize and can contribute to any part of the animal’s body.
“But if there was one sin above another which called for the destruction of the race by the flood, it was the base crime of amalgamation of man and beast which defaced the image of God, and caused confusion everywhere.”
The Spirit of Prophecy, Vol 1, page 69
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