This Industry Literally Wants to Suck the Blood of the Poor

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Our most personal substance—our blood—has become a commodity, a substance traded for profit at the expense of the most vulnerable.

You can save lives while earning some money!In the fifteen or so years that I lived in China, I was fascinated by the dystopian tales of that country’s plasma economy. Even the name seemed too strange for it to have been a reality. It was real, of course.

The farmers of Henan sold their blood plasma at a frenzied pace, and when HIV entered the corrupted system, as many as a million people were infected. By the time I met the whistleblowers Wang Shuping and Gao Yaojie in the United States, I had developed a smug conviction that our system here was much better, or at least a little kinder. There’s a mental deception that happens when you live outside your own country for a long time, when you begin to idealize home and see past its faults.

Even though we have millions of people in America who sell their blood plasma either as a temporary fix or for long-term in- come, we don’t know what that does to their bodies. Absent robust, independent scientific studies, there are endless anecdotes: stories of fainting, of being too weak to work, of feeling like they’re recovering from the flu.

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In the richest country in history, there are people who are reduced to this. A society is judged on how it treats its most vulnerable, we fail.

Donations are voluntary in Canada with no payment allowed.

The same people who voted against publicly-funded health care will sell their blood to buy groceries.

Here in Chile I have to wait 3 months between donations. And its ilegal to sell blood, al donations are voluntary

I'm going to make a fortune off this. I'm a pureblood, baby. No vax in these veins. That and my sperm. About to become a valuable commodity.

Thank god the smartest among us never got vaccinated

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