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[An Animal-Friendly Life: Vegan links, news, reviews, commentary, and podcasts] After reviewing numerous articles on genetically-engineered pigs (the articles mostly being clones themselves), I finally found an article that directly addressed the animal concerns raised by this topic at National Geographic. Apart from the specious supposition that we should be making an animal whose flesh is naturally high in saturated fat and cholesterol allegedly more heart-healthy by altering it to provide omega 3s galore, there are grave concerns about manipulating animals in this regard, and none of the articles dealt with it at all (being that the majority of them are AP plants), until I finally read the Nat'l Geo piece.

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