D.-toting bioethicists and ordinary people. On the other side is the argument that human needs trump animal rights. Most Americans seem to share that view. After all, we eat about 17 billion pounds of pork each year, and more than 142 million hogs and pigs went to market in 1997, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Pain is pain, whatever the species of being that experiences it.
Singer s is a minority view.
Both panels signaled opposition to the use of nonhuman primates particularly chimpanzees as xenotransplant donors, both because of their close relatedness to humans and for fear of driving them to extinction. But this is now a dead issue. Chimpanzees and baboons are simply not going to be used as xenotransplant donors. But Vanderpool says primates could still be used in the short run ethically as researchers develop xenotransplant methodology. The Nuffield and NAS panels found less objection to the use of other animals such as pigs.