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Re:James Harrison, whose blood donations saved >2M babies, h... by renewiltord on Monday March 03, 2025 @06:27PM (#43248113)
Seems incredibly unethical to exploit starving people by feeding them for selling their body. Horrible stuff. But from the nation that brought us our greatest human experimentation regimen, hardly surprising.
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Re:James Harrison, whose blood donations saved >2M babies, h... by pyth0 on Monday March 03, 2025 @06:43PM (#43248232)
> But from the nation that brought us our greatest human experimentation regimen, hardly surprising.

This is not a fair judgement in this situation. I think money is a far more perverse incentive for donating blood than snacks. Also the snacks are more about helping people increase their blood sugar after giving blood than incentivizing them.

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Re:James Harrison, whose blood donations saved >2M babies, h... by chneu on Tuesday March 04, 2025 @03:06AM (#43251733)
Lol it's cookies and juice. Calm down. Nobody is donating blood trying to stay fed.
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Re:James Harrison, whose blood donations saved >2M babies, h... by nucleardog on Tuesday March 04, 2025 @08:54AM (#43254607)
> But from the nation that brought us our greatest human experimentation regimen, hardly surprising.

To assume good faith here I'd have to assume wherever you are you've never donated blood?

When you donate blood you've lost a pint of fluids. They give you something to drink to work on rehydrating.

The sugar in the juice and the sugary snacks are to help give you a bit of energy since... you just lost a pint of blood.

Which is to say this is pretty standard everywhere. It's not payment. The ice pack after my vasectomy wasn't "payment for population control". It's healthcare.

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