The Mammoth Cometh Analysis

“The Mammoth Cometh” is an article by Nathaniel Rich where a team of scientists’ efforts to bring back the once much loved passenger pigeons from extinction. But what the scientists are bringing back isn’t really a passenger pigeon, it’s a mix between a band tail pigeon and a passenger pigeon or otherwise known as a chimera. In Rich’s article, a scientist named Beth Shapiro is trying to insert the extinct passenger pigeon DNA into a band-tail pigeon thus making a mixture of the two. This will hopefully create a bird closely related to the lost passenger pigeon. While scientists Shapiro, Novak and Brand work on the pigeon chimera, there’s also a new chimeric research going on in the medical field. According to an article by Antonio Regalado,

It 's a tragic thought, but unfortunately this is happening to real people and it 's tearing families apart. All the pain and suffering could be put to an end if the research for human-animal chimeras is developed. The animals would be experimented on, yes, but how "cruel" is the research if it is going to save millions who are awaiting organ transplants? I don 't believe people are looking at the bigger picture of this situation. They hear that animal experimentation is involved and immediately they are against it, but people 's lives are on the line. A pig 's life is one small price for a human who will go on to make blissful memories with their friends and families. Think of all the people who have already died or are going to die from organ failure, they won 't go on to make any more memories. I bet if you asked those people if the cruelty to the animals was worth it, or justified, they would take no time at all in agreeing with me that the experiments are worth it. Recently, a news story from Tech Times News told about a seven month old baby in Seattle that had been born with a birth defect where all his organs were born on the wrong side of his body. This baby had been waiting for a heart transplant for five months and in February of 2016, he was on his last days and still he had no heart donor. In the article, the

A video published by "Mercy For Animals" shows an undercover worker videotaping sickening treatments to pigs on an Ohio farm in 2013. One of the most stomach-turning sights was the workers swinging baby pigs by their hind legs and throwing them as hard as they could into the concrete floor, leaving the pigs still alive and squealing in a mass of blood. Animals are raised for human purposes all the time, but this treatment is unacceptable. The animals being raised for human consumption, are living a horrific life while the chimera animals are raised humanely and serve an even greater purpose: saving a sick or dying person 's life with a new organ. This abusive farm was a Tyson farm and unfortunately there are thousands just like it. Tyson is one of the worlds largest meat producers with suppliers including Walmart and KFC. Those stores are well-known places and many people are unknowingly eating meat that was abused and forced to suffer. There have been no reports that the animal chimeras used for medical research are treated this brutally, in the end they die, but not in such an inhumane way as the food companies. Animal activists should focus their attention on animals being wrongly treated in the food industry and not on the ones being