Sunday, March 20, 2022

Dogs As Pioneers of Medicine



July 27, 1921: Insulin is produced for the first time as a treatment for diabetes. 

University of Toronto student Charles Best (left) and surgeon Frederick Banting achieve the breakthrough using the pancreas of a dog. Banting later went on to win the Nobel Prize for Medicine.

Banting later pioneered the harvesting of pancrease's from slaughterhouse cows and pigs to produce insulin for humans -- the way insulin was produced until genetically-engineered bacteria was created to produce insulin in the 1980s.


Next time you meet an anti-GMO vegan, ask them what they know about insulin and diabetes.  How would they have faced that moral dilemma?


1 comment:

  1. Karen Carroll5:17 PM

    I just hand those AR/vegan militant types a DNR card. And simply walk away.....

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