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The Cannibal Pig People of Pig Hill
American Hysteria
The Puritans and the Human Pig Hybrid
The Puritans believed that the act of bestiality lowered a human being into the animal world. In 1835, a New York surgeon named Dr. Richard Kissum successfully transplanted the cornea of a pig into a young man who, for a short time, actually regained his sight. Since the 1960s, pig heart valves have been used as an acceptable replacement for those in need of a transplant. And more recently, scientific advances have shown that pig embryos injected with human stem cells are able to grow hybrid organs that contained those human cells. The idea would be to use the bodies of pigs to grow healthy organs for those waiting for transplants which could help people with diabetes, Parkinson's
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