@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world is right in that there are for-profit blood plasma donation companies in the US. They use machines to separate plasma from blood, pump it back in without the plasma, give chump change to the (usually financially desperate) “donors”, and then sell the plasma to laboratories for research and experiments.
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world is right in that there are for-profit blood plasma donation companies in the US. They use machines to separate plasma from blood, pump it back in without the plasma, give chump change to the (usually financially desperate) “donors”, and then sell the plasma to laboratories for research and experiments.