As if 2020 couldn't get more Orwellian....
Now we are entering the Animal Farm phase of this pandemic.
We are "humanizing" farm and lab animals to act as our surrogates to develop antibodies for Covid 19.
What could possibly go wrong with humanized farm animals?
Maybe we should think twice about gassing all those pigs we can't bring to market and just humanize them and turn them into walking Covid incubators.
If they start walking upright and grow opposable thumbs this will turn into Rise of the Planet of the Humanized Pig Men.
https://www.cnn.com/videos/health/2020/05/15/cow-antibodies-coronavirus-treatment-cohen-pkg-newday-vpx.cnn

Please tell us how a non-human animal gets humanized.

Dave the Atheist Wrote:
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> Please tell us how a non-human animal gets
> humanized.

They genetically engineer a cow embryo's chromosome by unzipping its double helix and zippering on a single helix of a human chromosome to create a half human half cow baby, which becomes a full size adult human cow, which they inject with the Rona and wait for it to become an antibody producing factory and they suck its massive amounts of blood 3 times/mo.
No word on bovinized humans.



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Oh the zoomanity!

Mancow babies appear to be udder nonsense. Or so I've herd. From 2008:

"Scientists in Newcastle set off a media firestorm in the U.K. earlier this week by announcing that they had created a human-animal hybrid – a cow egg whose nuclear DNA had been replaced by DNA from human skin cells… The hybrid embryos are purely for research and would never be allowed to develop beyond 14 days, when they are still smaller than a pinhead."

https://www.technologyreview.com/2008/04/03/221176/uk-scientists-create-human-cow-hybrid-embryos/

I can find nothing where the embryo is allowed to come to term.

Then what you are describing is abortion.

How Orwellian!

oH THE zOOMANITY... hahahahhahahahahahahhahahahhaahha

:-)

My cows are already humanized. Why just the other day, I had my back to the field and was refilling the water troth. A cow walked up behind me and said, "Moove"...sounded just like my wife telling me to get out of the way. I had to turn around to make sure it wasn't her.

We got insulin from pigs for decades. Now we get better insulin from genetically modified bacteria. Does that mean pigs and bacteria have been humanized?

Inquiring minds want to know(™)

And can this lead to mad cow disease? On tv an investigative reporter interviewed a cow. "Are you mad?" Cow responded, "No. But I'm pissed."

My 1980s European mission made me ineligible to give blood because of potential mad cow exposure.

Haha. UK in the middle or late 1980s.

Do those restrictions still apply? I thought the scientific community had dropped them.

It's still there deep on the red cross pages.They include Germany on the list which is where I was.

Germany: I didn't know that!

Humans have been animalizing for centuries so it certainly seems fair!

You old dog, you!

It's on America's tortured brow that Mickey Mouse has grown up a cow.

I've heard of ManBearPig but never have I heard of [just plain] Pig Man (though some men, and women, are piglike).

Must be some mutation.

On another note, since marijuana is (playing) "hard to 'get'", THC is being grown out (for "testing") on Yeast!

Let's taste that bread.

Rather than turn the pigs loose... Turn the (hungry) PEOPLE loose.

And threads like this are one of the reasons why I regularly tune into the exmo recovery board!

So is this "Animal Farm", or "The Island of Dr Moreau"?

I have a hard time getting worked up about this. If anything, I'm surprised it is cows and mice they are using, but not pigs, whose immune systems seem to be a pretty close match to ours.

I think "humanized" is both sensationalistic and misleading, though that seems to be par for the course in a lot of discourse these days.

Brother Of Jerry Wrote:
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> So is this "Animal Farm", or "The Island of Dr
> Moreau"?
>
> I have a hard time getting worked up about this.
> If anything, I'm surprised it is cows and mice
> they are using, but not pigs, whose immune systems
> seem to be a pretty close match to ours.
>
> I think "humanized" is both sensationalistic and
> misleading, though that seems to be par for the
> course in a lot of discourse these days.

AWEsome. Never heard of The Island of Dr. Moreau, but sounds like it's right down my alley.

>> "AWEsome. Never heard of The Island of Dr. Moreau, but sounds like it's right down my alley."

Great movie. I have the version with Val Kilmer and Marlon Brando and there are others....Michael York is in one as I recall.

Roy G Biv Wrote:
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> >> "AWEsome. Never heard of The Island of Dr.
> Moreau, but sounds like it's right down my
> alley."
>
> Great movie. I have the version with Val Kilmer
> and Marlon Brando and there are others....Michael
> York is in one as I recall.

In my Que.
Wow, the backstory on the making of that movie sounds like a nightmare. I guess so was Apocalypse Now, both involving Brando.

The original book by H.G. Wells was better.

herd immunity

So all those Far Side cartoons are real!


"...on a beautiful spring morning in 2020, young Gary Larson, seeking to know which comedy style to draw, went into the woods..."

Awesome!

Why not Humanized Chimpanzees? Create a Humanzee using this technology. Why not create a half human half Chimp for harvesting antibodies? And at what point do they have Human rights >50% Human DNA?
Chimps already share 99% of their DNA with Humans, so wouldn't they also deserve human rights since they're 99% human?

Nothing new about using cattle and livestock to create vaccines.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowpox

Back when smallpox was a serious problem, an English physician named Edward Jenner noticed that milkmaids who had been exposed to the mild (in humans) disease cowpox had immunity to the more lethal smallpox. He then gathered some pus from cattle with cowpox and infected people with it as the first vaccine against smallpox, which is why he's the father of vaccination.

Not sure how well the genetic engineering aspect will work out, though.



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Colbert did a whole bit on this last night.

https://youtu.be/WIZ1fW43t_8

Hilarious.