[cameronh90]

I'm vegetarian and have no issue with using animals for medical purposes like this. It's one thing to kill for pleasure as in fur, cosmetics and food, but quite another to kill an animal to save a human life. I am pretty sure even most vegans would be happy to accept an animal death to save their own life, even a pet.

Similarly, I guess, I was vegan but I had to stop that diet as it caused severe health problems for me.

[inglor_cz]

Once you kill the pig for its heart and kidneys, you might as well eat it. Better than letting the nutritional value of the meat go to waste.

That wouldn't be a lot of pigs, true, and a pork chop of that origin would be pretty expensive.

[Cthulhu_]

Nothing in an animal for slaughter goes to waste, they're too expensive for that.

I mean the value of various parts like organ meat varies by what it's used for, but eventually everything is used up. A lot of offal ends up in animal feed, for example. And their hooves end up in keratine supplements for the gymbros.

[inglor_cz]

These are genetically altered pigs with human genes inserted, though. I can see some people being uneasy about consuming them, either from moral or pragmatic (possible pathogenicity) point of view.

[cameronh90]

Perhaps I'm somewhat of an atypical veg, but I am okay with that - although I personally wouldn't as I no longer like meat.

I also would not ban meat consumption if I was a dictator, but I would enforce extremely high ethical standards, carbon neutrality and proper management of agricultural effluent. I suspect that would make a pork chop pretty expensive too.