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Re:Biomedical companies bleed 500k horseshoe crabs a year by mirimir on Monday April 17, 2017 @12:42PM (#14132319)
Well, it's OK if it's voluntary. But that gets murky for prisoners, who arguably can't freely decline.
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Re:Biomedical companies bleed 500k horseshoe crabs a year by maxerickson on Monday April 17, 2017 @01:02PM (#14132512)
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)

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Re:Biomedical companies bleed 500k horseshoe crabs a year by mirimir on Monday April 17, 2017 @02:54PM (#14133426)
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_...

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Re:Biomedical companies bleed 500k horseshoe crabs a year by throwanem on Monday April 17, 2017 @01:05PM (#14132538)
Few whole-blood transfusions occur in a setting where the patient can inquire in detail as to provenance.
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Re:Biomedical companies bleed 500k horseshoe crabs a year by maxerickson on Monday April 17, 2017 @01:08PM (#14132567)
Of course. That doesn't mean people wouldn't react to news about blood being collected in prisons.
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