The society we live in today has developed drastically, this development has ranged and branched out to a variety of fields, one field that has seen tremendous advancement would be the medical field. Medicine has been documented to be around for 2500 years and has been potent in the lasting of the human race. One major factor that has persisted for a long period of time and has claimed many would be Heart failure; the heart is a complex organ that strives to pump blood through your body through the use of blood vessels such as arteries, capillaries and veins these vessels carry blood throughout your body. Your heart is vital to your health due to the fact that without the heart’s pumping action, blood would not be able to move through your …show more content…
The positive impact of xenotransplantation is that it can save countless lives, even though there are many risks involved, as time goes on scientists will develop safe methods posing less risks. Another positive impact it can pose on society is that it may decrease the demand of organs in the black market, the rate in which demand for organ increases it increases in the black market as well. It is reported that a plethora of criminal organizations take advantage of this and kill to acquire organs and sell to people at higher prices. Legalizing xenotransplantation can decrease the demand for organs, in turn decrease the uses of black market …show more content…
This is not only unethical, but can also bring attention from animal activist’s groups, such as PETA (people for the ethical treatment of animals). Whether we have the rights to experiment on pigs, this can also lead to whether we have the right to eat them. If xenotransplantation crosses the human-animal boundary, this question takes about if we have the right to continue experiments on the animals for our benefactor. Xenotransplantation can have a cultural aspect towards, pigs are considered unclean in many religions, and the legalization may cause uproar in