The Yanamamo of Brazil refer to human meat as "long-pig".bigspizz;3554001; said:Yes.....I have read humans would be like pork if eaten....Now I want some ham....
Dan Feller;3554318; said:The Yanamamo of Brazil refer to human meat as "long-pig".
As far as transplants, the only "successful" interspecies human transplants so far have been from baboons or chimps. Doctors do have hopes for the possibility of future transplants from pigs to humans, but genetic modification of the pig will need to be perfected in order to avoid rejection.
Humans are much more closely "related" to primates than pigs, we share over 99% of our DNA with Chimpanzees.
I was going to mention that too. One of my mom's friends has a porcine heart-valve. I think they can transplant bovine valves as well.bigspizz;3557128; said:Knuckle walker heart =4 valves.....Pig heart=2 valves....Human heart=2 valves.....
We are also 99% the same as a dandelion DNA wise.....
That, and a googol has 100 zeroes. Money is made out of a secret blend of wool and cotton.Dan Feller;3552943; said:At least two of these have been proved untrue by the Mythbusters. Sumatran chickens are capable of sustained flight. I love how these lists of "facts" never quite pan out...
Ok, but I thought we were talking about the transplantation of entire organs. There have been "successful" (as in the patient lived for a while) transplants of baboon hearts and livers into humans over the past 25 or 30 years, but there have not been any transplants of entire pig organs to date.bigspizz;3557128; said:Knuckle walker heart =4 valves.....Pig heart=2 valves....Human heart=2 valves.....
We are also 99% the same as a dandelion DNA wise.....