SPECIAL REPORT: A disturbing look into the U.S. blood industry, and how corporate America is exploiting the poor and literally sucking the life out of them. @AlanRMacLeod. mintpressnews.com/harvesting-blo…
The number of blood collection centers in the US has more than doubled since 2005 and blood now makes up well over 2% of total US exports by value. To put that in perspective, Americans’ blood is now worth more than all exported corn or soy products.
The US supplies fully 70% of the world’s plasma, mainly because most other countries have banned the practice on ethical and medical grounds. Exports increased by over 13% to $28.6 billion, between 2016 and 2017, and the plasma market is projected to “grow radiantly." 
But in order to generate such enormous profits, these vampiric corporations consciously target the poorest and most desperate Americans. One study found that the majority of donors in Cleveland generate more than a third of their income from “donating” blood.
Professor H. Luke Schaefer of the University of Michigan, co-author of "$2 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America," told @MintPressNews:
Almost half of America is broke, 58% is living paycheck to paycheck, with savings of less than $1000. 37 million Americans go to bed hungry and over half a million sleep on the streets on any given night, with many millions more in vehicles or relying on friends or family.
It is in this context that millions in the red have turned to selling blood to make ends meet. In a very real sense then, these corporations are harvesting the blood of the poor, literally sucking the life out of them. wsws.org/en/articles/20…
