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