What Organs Are You Wasting Valuable Body Space On?
"Pope Francis Has One Lung: What Organs Can You Live Without?"
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The Global Human Hair 'n' Kidney Black Market
"Most of the hair that gets shorn is from men. That gets sold to chemical companies and gets reduced to an amino acid called L-cystine, which is used as a leavening agent in baking goods." —Hi, I'm trying not to throw up. Here's a great primer on Scott Carney's look at the markets for humans and their parts. Obviously the incredibly large industry of kidney-harvesting is more truly disgusting but, ack: human hair food. I guess the world isn't really quite that flat after all, since white babies are worth more in the adoption market and expensive organs in "the west" fetch next to nothing to their original owners [...]
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ER Doctors Want To Steal Our Organs!
When you die in the ER, if you are an organ donor, your organs are not harvested! But now an emergency room-based project, funded by the organ-craving socialists at the Department of Health and Human Services, promises to steal away your organs before you are even brain dead, so as to save other people who need your kidneys and things. There are "questions"! From "some" who think ER doctors "might not do everything possible to save patients and may even hasten their deaths, to increase the chance of obtaining organs." Yes. That's how ER doctors are. Just ready to kill you for your eyeballs. Also? "Experts" are concerned that [...]
