Re:Biomedical companies bleed 500k horseshoe crabs a year
by aeturnum on Monday April 17, 2017 @12:28PM
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You're right, people would never accept a regime where humans were drained of some of their blood in order to give other humans medical treatment with that blood.
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Re:Biomedical companies bleed 500k horseshoe crabs a year
by djrogers on Monday April 17, 2017 @12:36PM
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> You're right, people would never accept a regime where humans were drained of some of their blood in order to give other humans medical treatment with that blood.
Yes, that'd be due to the fact that we see humans as equals, and the same is not true for humans and horseshoe crabs.
Re:Biomedical companies bleed 500k horseshoe crabs a year
by mirimir on Monday April 17, 2017 @12:42PM
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Well, it's OK if it's voluntary. But that gets murky for prisoners, who arguably can't freely decline.
Re:Biomedical companies bleed 500k horseshoe crabs a year
by maxerickson on Monday April 17, 2017 @01:02PM
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Even setting aside statistics about various communicable diseases, prejudice would make use of prisoner blood a tenuous thing.
(I mean beliefs about prisoners being "bad" or "tainted" or whatever and people not wanting to receive their blood)
Re:Biomedical companies bleed 500k horseshoe crabs a year
by mirimir on Monday April 17, 2017 @02:54PM
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Well, it is a bad idea, for both human-rights and health reasons.[0,1]
1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tainted_blood_scandal_(United_...
2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factor_8:_The_Arkansas_Prison_...
Re:Biomedical companies bleed 500k horseshoe crabs a year
by throwanem on Monday April 17, 2017 @01:05PM
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Few whole-blood transfusions occur in a setting where the patient can inquire in detail as to provenance.
Re:Biomedical companies bleed 500k horseshoe crabs a year
by maxerickson on Monday April 17, 2017 @01:08PM
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Of course. That doesn't mean people wouldn't react to news about blood being collected in prisons.