killing denouement


human – pig embryos and the planeteers
July 1, 2008, 8:03 pm
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[photo by per_andersen]

Not to mention pigs again, but it seems they’re now granting licenses to create human-pig embryos to study heart disease. The first pig, and the third license for any animal-human embryo issued by the UK’s Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority. I don’t know how far they’d let it grow; I doubt it’d spawn a full grown pig-human creatures, but huh! Crazy. [via grinding.be]

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gentrifiying gaia: pigs in sweaters
July 1, 2008, 7:27 am
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Again with the pigs huh. I don’t know what it is – maybe the years of living in a Muslim country where pork is considered to be haram, and thus relegated to a sad section of the Spinneys/ supermarket of choice? I remember being little and getting a video of Babe the movie nearly confiscated at Dubai Airport Customs once. Not that I even eat meat at all. What I do know is that this print from street artist (and as it transpires, bang-up painter and photographer too) Gaia is kind of amazing.

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