Animal experimenters are at it again. Duke University Medical Center and Nextran Corporation, a biotechnology company, are planning
to use pig livers to "help" patients whose livers have failed and who are near death. Doctors at Loma Linda University in California
have also announced that they are now planning to transplant pig hearts into human beings.
The baboon and pig heart and liver transplants are two clear examples of the madness of transplantation in general, and
xenotransplantation, or interspecies transplantation, in particular. Let's begin by facing the facts:
Aside from the fact that human to human transplantation is not a real solution (only an extremely limited number of people qualify to
undergo such grueling operations, there is limited success after the operation, there are multiple side-effects from huge amounts of
medication, it requires unbearable financial cost), the biggest problem with transplanting human organs is that there aren't enough
of them to go around. For example, we lose more than 3,000 Americans per day to cardiovascular diseases. Considering that only a few
thousand human heart transplants are performed every year in the United States, it becomes evident that transplantation - even if we
considered it a success - cannot begin to make a dent in the problem.
The medical and scientific communities have come to realize that human to human transplantation is a dead-end street with limited
possibilities to make big money limited by the number of suitable organs available. It is because of this pesky limitation that they
have been trying to come up with the ultimate solution: An endless supply of organs which would allow them to perform huge numbers of
transplantation operations. The number of such operations would only be limited by their own greed and irresponsibility.
The next best thing to having an endless supply of plastic hearts is to have an endless supply of animal hearts. So the dream of
xenotransplantation or interspecies transplantation makes a lot of sense if you have been trained to believe in fantasies. But there
is a snag: Each species of animal is a totally different biomechanical and bioehemical entity. Hearts and livers from baboons and
pigs were created to work within an infinitely and exquisitely complex physiological web we have chosen to call "baboon" and "pig."
The surgeons from both Loma Linda University and the University of Pittsburgh who engaged in xenotransplantation demonstrated their
utter ignorance and contempt for the most basic laws of nature just by attempting the animal to human transplants.
But in order for the biomedical empire to keep the support and allegiance of millions of people, it must keep the sense of wonder and
wizardry alive at any cost. Hope cannot be allowed to die. Consequently, the "miracles" and "breakthroughs" that are always "just
around the corner" must be created on an almost daily basis. Hence the flat refusal on the part of the biomedical empire to give up
interspecies organ transplantation, one of the flashiest, most flamboyant and headline-grabbing activities ever undertaken by their
"researchers."
Little wonder that what is euphemistically called "health care" has become the biggest threat ever to both our personal and economic
survival. After decades of massive animal-based research at a cost of countless billions of tax dollars, crippling and deadly
diseases of all kinds are affecting an ever-increasig number of Americans. In the U.S., the annual "health care" price tag has
already surpassed the one trillion dollar mark - 14% of the American economy. It is conservatively estimated that, beginning in the
year 2000, the annual U.S. health care bill will reach the $2 trillion mark, and an incredible $16 trillion a year by the time the
year 2030 rolls around - a staggering 32% of the projected U.S. economy. (1)
(1) Sally T. Burner, Daniel R. Waldo. and David R. McKusick, "National health expenditures projections through 2030," Health Care
Financing Review 14, No. 1 (Fall 1992), pp. 1-29.
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Leonard Bailey, the Loma Linda University surgeon who performed the 1984 baboon heart transplant into Baby Fae, announced shortly
after Baby Fae's death (she died after 20 days) that the operation had been a great success. In 1992, the University of Pittsburgh
Medical Center transplanted a baboon liver into a 35 year-old man. When the unfortunate man died shortly after the transplant, the
surgeons involved also stated that the operation had been a great success. There is no doubt that these are the kind of "successes"-
which the biomedical research wizards have been piling up since 1905 when interspecies transplantation was first tried - that justify
these new attempts to transplant pig hearts and livers into human beings.
Transplantation: An Automatic Admission of Failure
Transplantation is an automatic admission of failure. It is a total and obvious failure in the field of prevention because the
disease that destroyed the heart, the kidney or the liver was not prevented. It is also a failure in the field of treatment because
giving up on the sick organ simply means that no one knows how to cure it. And the chance of finding any real cures is zero, simply
because we keep financing experimental research (vivisection or the artificial and violent attempt to recreate human disease in
animals in the lab) to the almost total exclusion of the only real solutions: Prevention and clinical research (the study of human
beings who have acquired the disease spontaneously).
The pseudo-scientific mentality that promotes the cruel hoax of transplantation is part and parcel of the vivisectionist mind-set.
The message that transplantation sends to doctors and scientists is that they shouldn't waste their precious time preventing disease
or looking for cures. Instead, they are urged to promote the "spare parts" mentality, which promises instant health upon replacement
of the sick organ with a healthy one.
Likewise, the message conveyed to the general public is that it is not really important to eat right, exercise, or to avoid harmful
habits such as drinking and smoking. After all, when the heart, kidneys, and/or liver give out, the patient can always go to the
local hospital and get a brand new one. This Cartesian theory equates life with inanimate matter and views the concept of organ
transplantation as a purely mechanical task, much like replacing a carburetor in a car.
Three different kinds of transplants have been attempted. First, the transplantation of human to human organs. Second, artificial
organ transplantation. And third, xenotransplantation or interspecies organ transplantation. None of these represents a viable
solution to the many health problems that plague humankind.
Human to Human Transplantation
Animal experimenters claim that the "success" of human to human heart and liver transplantation is due to animal experimentation. But
this statement is totally groundless. There isn' t a single animal that has survived for more than a few days or weeks the
transplantation of a heart or liver from another animal of its own species, or a different species. Furthermore, this fact clearly
illustrates the point that vivisection is not only useless but also counterproductive: A procedure that may enjoy a certain modicum
of success in humans (such as human to human heart transplantation) always proves to be a total disaster with experimental animals
(such as dog to dog, rat to rat, or baboon to goat heart or liver transplantation).
It is important to point out that all the experimental animals that were subjected to heart transplantation at the hands of Leonard
Bailey died. Yet Dr. Bailey didn't hesitate to perform the infamous baboon heart transplant on tiny Baby Fae. Likewise, the
researchers that performed the first baboon to human liver transplant on the 35-year-old man at the University of Pittsburgh, did
hundreds of animal experiments before attempting the transplant. And again, they went ahead with the operation even though not a
single experimental animal had survived the ordeal.
Researchers maintain that they use animals in their "research" because it would be "immoral" to experiment on people. But their main
justification for using animals is not moral, but rather, "scientific:" They insist that animals are very reliable models for human
beings. According to this premise - the fundamental tenet of vivisection - neither Leonard Bailey nor the surgeons from the
University of Pittsburgh should have proceeded with the transplants involving the human subjects, because all the animal experiments
that preceded them were dismal failures. Instead, they chose to ignore the results of their own experimental research on animals. The
reason for this has to be that the researchers themselves know full well that the results obtained from animal experimentation cannot
be extrapolated to human beings. Incredibly, the futile exercises in butchery performed upon Baby Fae and the nameless 35-year old
man are not considered "immoral," let alone unscientific, by these high priests of the church of veterinary-based human medicine.
Artificial Organ Transplantation
The first attempt went to the heart of the American dream: Cranking out endless numbers of artificial hearts would allow the
"scientists" to "save" the lives of millions of people around the world while making billions of dollars. On top of that, they would
receive the eternal gratitude of the human race for such a priceless gift of humanitarianism. But the dream soon evaporated when,
beginning with dentist Barney Clark in 1983, all the recipients of the Jarvik plastic heart died one after another.
The reasons for the failure of plastic hearts are very simple. Among others, the brain and the nervous system can no longer control
the beating of the heart, which must be powered by a machine. The machine always makes the heart beat at the same rate, regardless of
whether the owner of the new plastic heart is agitated or at rest. This alone has tremendous implications that modern science cannot
even begin to grasp. Besides, the rejection problem cannot be solved unless massive amounts of immuno-suppressant drugs are
administered.
This causes the patient to die from all kinds of infections because the immune system is invariably knocked out of commission by the
drugs. These persistent problems led the FDA to shelve the Jarvik plastic heart in 1990. Back to square one.
Interspecies Organ Transplantation
"Transgenic" Interspecies Organ Transplantation
Ideally, every new and impending "breakthrough" must be slightly different - and certainly more esoteric - than the previous one.
Different enough to make it look "new and improved," enough to keep hope alive. In the case of the latest project to transplant pig
hearts and livers into humans, the new spin on it is that the pig organs will supposedly be "transgenic." This simply means that the
organs in question will be a "combination of animal and human genetic material," which, according to the researchers, will be less
likely to be rejected.
It is the untenable premise that human medicine can be based on veterinary medicine that has led the biomedical establishment to
engage in all kinds of mind-boggling absurdities, including artificial and interspecies organ transplantation. It is also this
mentality that fuels the very fashionable genetic manipulation (i.e., "pig organs laced with human genes"), which, like all
fantasies, is based on wishful thinking rather than on cold, scientific facts.
True Science Must Prevail
There is only one possible cure: a drastic reduction in the number of sick people. This can only be achieved if sanity is allowed to
prevail and we are somehow able to bring about the creation of a true health care system. But for this new system to work, two things
must happen: Prevention and clinical research must be its centerpieces and animal experimentation must be forever abolished.
Written by Javier Burgos, founder and president of SUPRESS/Nature of Wellness
This is an updated version of the original article on transplantation originally entitled, "Operation Successful, Patient Dead",
which appeared in the Autumn 1992 issue of our newsletter.
REFERENCES
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