Article makes it sound like Japan has unusually strict rules here - - quoting the article, “Japan currently has a ban on what’s called “in vivo” experiments, meaning “within the living.” Essentially, Japanese law forbids experiments that involve a whole, living creature, like these piglets. (“In vitro,” or “within the glass,” is permitted.)”
I think in the US, this would be a relatively easy sell to institutional review boards. It’s legal and widely considered ethical to raise pigs and then eat them. Is there an ethical issue posed here that doesn’t arise for pork?
Article makes it sound like Japan has unusually strict rules here - - quoting the article, “Japan currently has a ban on what’s called “in vivo” experiments, meaning “within the living.” Essentially, Japanese law forbids experiments that involve a whole, living creature, like these piglets. (“In vitro,” or “within the glass,” is permitted.)”
I think in the US, this would be a relatively easy sell to institutional review boards. It’s legal and widely considered ethical to raise pigs and then eat them. Is there an ethical issue posed here that doesn’t arise for pork?
If it’s OK to eat a pig but throw away the pancreas, then it should be OK to implant the pancreas and eat the rest of the pig.
Although law doesn’t have to be as internally consistent as most ethical systems.