The thing about rich people getting blood from young people is true, but news sites aren’t reporting on it well. No one is drinking blood, but they are paying $8,000 to get blood transfusions from young adults (not children). That sounds like something a rich fuck would do, I sure don’t have $8,000 laying around for something like that.
There is an actual clinic being opened in New York City to offer the procedure commercially. Again, the blood is coming from young adults, not children. Still, there’s absolutely something sinister about harvesting blood from young people to sell to people with too much disposable income. If financial compensation is offered to donors, then it’s going to target disenfranchised populations as blood banks, much the same as plasma companies.
In short, it’s a company that’s quite literally leeching from blood banks for money. Will it escalate into incentive for blood brokers to run human trafficking rings? Probably not if the study results are as dubious as everyone is claiming. If nothing else, it’s going to be the same kind of shitshow as the plasma industry. Still a shit concept endorsed by horrible people like Peter Thiel, because of course fucking Republicans and venture capitalists find nothing wrong with this.
“Kissing Doesn’t Kill“ (Black and white postcard) from 1980’s ACT UP campaign for HIV/AIDS awareness.
This is the banner that was put up on buses to create awareness! a lot of companies cropped out the bottom so I thought it would be cool to share the full version