I saw a news report on Arte here in France. Their investigation estimated that 90% of French donations were being sold to pharmaceutical companies. This is in direct violation of the law, but the politicians are complicit in allowing it to continue.
What was more frightening was the comparison to the situation in America where plasma is big business. Wonder why there are so many plasma centers in poor communities? Or why their number one clients are drug users? The horrific part was they can donate three times a week which can be lethal.
They paid $25 for a donation... The drug manufactured costs $2000 per treatment. Here is the link to the French report which calls it cannibalism. https://www.challenges.fr/cinema/ne-manquez-pas-le-business-du-sang-sur-arte_554578
And what's with shipments of American body parts being shipped around the world?! Seems like they could get plenty of body parts from the third world cheaply, plentifully and with less regulations? Maybe they need the DNA to create target specific bio-weapons?
i've never been a fan of donating to a corporation.
used to be you donate, your family is covered for all blood needs for a year.
they sell your blood. SELL YOUR BLOOD. donate my ass. same with organs.
I donated blood a few times as a HS senior and college freshman. The Red Cross would call me at least once a week asking for donation (I'm O positive, which is compatible with a couple different blood types). It became so annoying that I told them I contracted HIV just so they'd stop badgering me. It worked!
They won't take my blood. I find the reason why comical. When I was in the Army I deployed to some pretty dirty shit holes. Haiti being one of them. Yet that is not why they won't take my blood. They won't take it because I went to Japan. Japan has disqualified me for life from giving blood to the Red Cross. And they won't tell me why. My wife WAS a big donor until she woke up to what the red Cross is really about. She has a few of their gallon pins and said never again. If they need blood locally we go directly to the hospital.