If they become aware of themself, then it should be stopped. But I doubt that will even happen.

This is awesome :)

You just wait till they open the interdimensional gates to the Abyss. If you do not have sex witht the demonic interdimensional abominations you are a racist!

Alestair Reynold's Revelation space has Hyperpigs as a species.
http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/content.asp?Bnum=1676

Somewhere before the dawn of the Demarchist era, in the twenty-first or twenty-second century, not far from the time of Clavain's own birth, a spectrum of human genes had been spliced into those of the domestic pig. The intention had been to optimise the ease with which organs could be transplanted between the two species, enabling pigs to grow body parts that could be harvested later for human utilisation... The genetic intervention had gone too far, achieving not just cross-species compatibility but something entirely unexpected: intelligence.

Pubblished 16 years ago. Be careful what you write, it might come true.

I had to read that book for my science fiction english class... it was that.  They had split animals.  And chickens that were just chunks pf meat all connected to each other passing eggs around and other weird things.

Personally, not a fan of this.

Yeah, there was something called 'pigoons' they referenced frequently.  Forgot about the chickens though...gross...

Never read this...but wow. Kinda eerie...

Why? This could end up saving a lot of lives one day. Stopping this kind of research just because a few people get grossed out is more morally reprehensible than the research itself from my point of view

This could be really great for mankind one day. Having said that.... It makes me uncomfortable. It feels wrong.

That is great news, nothing is disgusting there.

Can wait also for when humans starts genetically modifying their genetic offspring and creating humans 2.0. A offspring that wouldn't be afflicted by the disease of aging we lesser humans are afflicted. And the only reason we lesser humans are afllicted by it is due the lack of natural selection on our ancestors due to non age related deaths occurring before aging.

I hate this morality and ethical restraints that come mostly from fear of change, lack of scientific knowledge and sometimes religious myth that impairs our progress as human species.

ps:Also, I believe in few years (20 years at most) we will develop meat that will grow on tree. It will be just as tastier than meat but healthier and take less resources to produce, less water, less soil and won't have to torture mammals to get our meat. It would be the vegan dream since animal meat would become a delicacy and high cost luxury, making it so that they would virtually win the war against animal mistreatment. Altough I have a inkling most of them will opose this techonology just like people demonize transgenics plants right now, when in fact the only reason we can feed 7 billion people is because of trangenics plants and a few billion of human beings would have to die if we were to live only on a organic less eficient agronomical technology.