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by inglor_cz 1609 days ago
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.
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Cthulhu_ 1609 days ago
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.

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inglor_cz 1609 days ago
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.
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cameronh90 1609 days ago
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.

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