When you donate blood to an organization like the American Red Cross, they sell that blood for around $200 per bag. But, they have to hire qualified and well-tr

When you donate blood to an organization like the American Red Cross, they sell that blood for around $200 per bag. But, they have to hire qualified and well-trained people and set up facilities with medical equipment to collect your blood. From the research I've done, they don't seem to be making much money off of your blood - it's reasonable for them to sell the blood to hospitals, otherwise blood supplies would be extremely limited. This does not seem the same. It seems like companies are running around sending people to harvest as much tissue as fast as possible because they make tons of money. Note that the picture in the article only lists prices of skin, cornea, tendons, etc. That is probably because it is against US law to buy/sell actual organs like a heart or a kidney. But these companies are clearly making a profit on everything else if they're so obsessed with getting all the tissues they can, even at the cost of murder investigations. The Red Cross marketing team calls me to get me to try to sign up for more blood donations. But they don't lobby the government for laws that hook them into the coroners and morgues so they can harvest all the blood the second that someone dies.