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"Human or Animal blood is not donated plasma." Plasma is a sub-category of blood. None of this discussion has been about just plasma. "Are you arguing that Ir

• glofish 7y ago
  The entire discussion is about paying people for their blood and the main argument backing up the exploitation was the size of the exports. All I am showing is that a country can export lots of blood even when they don't allow paid "donations" (like Ireland) - thus demonstrating that the magnitude of the blood exports has nothing to do with the paid or unpaid nature of donations. Thus the whole article is little more than fear-mongering and fake news. That being said, I would not be surprised to learn that there are people that get exploited. I would not be surprised to learn that there may substantial problems and we should work on solving those. But exaggerating and fake news does not help anybody.
• neonate 7y ago
  I think what glofish and arcticfox are arguing is that these export numbers include things like animal blood and vaccines that have nothing to do with "the blood of poor Americans", which is the article's outrageous claim. Ireland is relevant because it has comparably sized exports to the U.S. in this category but vastly fewer people, indicating that most of what's included in this category isn't obtained from humans.