Yes no doubt, people are dying because there are not enough organs, and yes the great thing about this as you say is that it fixes both.

Is it ethical, I'm not sure, but without pushing science, they wont be able to think how to improve it in the future. I mean they have been talking about building organs in a petri dish... they were making cartilage and able to replace peoples ears... so I think initially investigations into these techniques might be a bit gross, but ultimately they will get a better and less gross method (or a method that doesnt make you feel a little queezy)... of course if I had organ failure and they had an organ available that would save my life and it was harvested with pigs, I would no doubt jump at the chance to live longer.

Not sure I agree with creating a human pig hybrid just to harvest its organs.... seems creepy imo.

Science bitches... it works! :)

It makes sense. If the project takes off they could cure diseases with a simple transplant.

They should have called it Project Bebop though.

NO NO and NO !

With the advances we see in science I wouldn't be suprised if we started seeing whole organs being grown outside of animal bodies. For the time being I'm sure there will be people that will reject animal grown organs (like the most hard core vegans). People will probably remain sceptical to this kind of treatment for some years just because we're sceptical in general. 

I do think this will be the biggest breakthrough since antibiotics. In stead of trying to mend body parts the best we can we'll probably just end up putting in new ones a lot more than we do currently. Exciting times!

About time. If anyone who is against this would kindly donate their own organs, that would be swell.

Next step, The Island (yeah, fairly crappy flick, but still)

I feel like I read a book or saw a movie with this premise before. Oryx and Crake maybe? Need to look that up again to remember what it was about.

Anyways...the thought of this make very uncomfortable. Though I won't deny being a hypocrite...seeing as how much I love beef and pork.

Well what I meant to say is the mentality of death, the fear of it.