Israel: This Little Piggie Went to Heal...

"Jews and pigs? What, like, together? Isn't that, umm, un-kosher?"

Well, not really. Turns out that a "team from the Weizmann Institute of Science have demonstrated for the first time how tissues transplanted from pig embryos might, in the future, be able to induce the human body to produce blood-clotting proteins for hemophilia patients and other critical substances."

Read the rest here. More on Jewish views of this issue are here, here and here.

Sure beats going Islamic over anything porcine...

Cox & Forkum have more on the "Perils of Piglet" here.