The New Zealand Bio-Ethics Council's decision to recommend that animal-to-human transplantation be allowed opens the door to potentially new viruses and further misery and suffering for animals. Steven Cowan examines the new world of xenotransplantation and finds that the risks have been downplayed and crucial questions left unanswered. "Twelve voices were shouting in anger, and they were all alike. No question, now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which." George Orwell, Animal Farm.
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