How genetically modified pigs could end the shortage of organs for transplants

I mean...what other options are there? There are too many people who need organ transplants and not enough donors. As stated - thousands of animals are "sacrificed" every year for us to eat. So what's the difference here?

Idk - my daughter was on peritoneal dialysis for 11 months which was longer than most pediatric patients were waiting at her transplant center for a kidney. I did my best to try to find a living donor but it just never happened. She did get a deceased donor kidney...which I had hoped we wouldn't get because it kills me to know someone's child died for mine to live. I am eternally grateful to that child's family for donating. I met the mom and am friends with her. I don't know how she keeps going every day since but she does. But I also know someday my daughter will probably have to get another kidney. The one she got will probably last awhile but not for the rest of her life. And they've been doing research on artificial kidneys but that will take time too.

My daughter was on PD for 11 months - some people's kids have been on it for years. Adults are on it for years. I thought I was going to lose my mind within almost a year of managing PD for my then toddler. I can't imagine if I'd had to do that for YEARS.

Idk I guess I look at it differently being that parent who had to watch her kid struggle as an infant to toddler because she just happened to be born with shitty kidneys - because her dad and I had a gene that we didn't know existed that caused it. Rare genetic disorder I'd never heard of until she was diagnosed...

PO1 William "Chip" Nagel if it saves lives... bring on the pork.