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Creeping, and creepy, desensitization
These piggies, along with other transgenic creatures, are also an experiment in social conditioning.
We get many "noble" causes--pigs that pollute less, pigs that grow human organs. Then we get a few weird outliers--glow-in-the-dark kittens that we are allowed to reject.
There will be many excuses to apply "rational" thought to radically altering our global evolutionary and domestic breeding inheritance to better serve the human market. The people making these value decisions will be scientists, which is to say, corporations.