RED GOLD FOR SALE!

RED GOLD!   IS BIG BUSINESS . . . ITS NOT FOR THE HEALTH OF YOU OR ME . . . ITS FREE & EASY MONEY.         It is highly valued.     This precious fluid, a crucial natural resource has been compared TO actual gold, but also to oil and coal!

People transfusing the blood, who are sincere and want to help the afflicted and believe that they are doing a good deed.

 After blood is donated and before it is transfused, it passes through more hands than most of us realize.      Like gold, blood inspires greed!!    It may be sold at a profit and then resold at a larger profit. Some people even fight over the rights to collect blood, they sell it at exorbitant prices, they make fortunes from it, and they even smuggle it from one country to another. The world has gone MAD over, selling blood . . . .  yes it is a multibillion dollar business.

In the United States, donors were once paid outright for their blood. But in 1971 British author Richard Titmuss charged that by thus luring the poor and sick to donate blood for the sake of a few dollars, the American system was unsafe. He also argued that it was immoral for people to profit from giving their blood to help others. His attack prompted an end to the paying of whole-blood donors in the United States (although the system still thrives in some lands). Yet, that did not make the blood market any less profitable. Why?

In the 1940’s, scientists began to separate blood into its components. The process, now called fractionation, makes blood an even more lucrative business. How? Well, consider: When dismantled and its parts sold, a late-model car may be worth up to five times its value when intact. Similarly, blood is worth much more when it is divided up and its components are sold separately.

Plasma, which makes up about half of the blood’s total volume, is an especially profitable blood component. Since plasma has none of the cellular blood parts—red cells, white cells, and platelets—it can be dried and stored. Furthermore, a donor is allowed to give whole blood only five times a year, but he can give plasma up to twice a week by undergoing plasmapheresis. In this process, whole blood is extracted, the plasma separated, and then the cellular components are reinfused into the donor.