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bopper ago

More confirmation of a huge black market for "fresh body parts."

"Arms, heads, legs, kept on ice to stay fresh."

"... whole corpses were routinely sold for $5,000, arms for $750 and heads for $500." (From a different article, same business.)

googlehangoutsnow ago

Why do they want the arms? Not even hand transplants are routinely successful. Do they eat the arms?

equineluvr ago

Muscle and tendon harvesting.

neverobey ago

you can, for example, tage skin or muscle cells for reproduction.

Intheknow ago

The weak are meat and the strong do eat. Cloud Atlas movie. Has references to canniblism. Soilent green people. Is there a Mcdonalds nearby?

ThisNameAlreadyTaken ago

Bunch of transplant parts.

Skin, muscle tissue, bone marrow, nerve tissue, blood vessels for patching around bad cholesterol deposits, you name it. Not to mention stem cells for implantation or research.

bopper ago

Yeah, makes no sense, and I thought med students only worked on whole corpses. No clue. Somebody else will know more probably.

MyNameIsLuka ago

Welp, there's always this:

https://voat.co/v/pizzagate/1739169

Grifter42 ago

Man, corneas is cheap!

Unless they're harvesting glands from the head.

bopper ago

Might be 'cause they're selling mainly to hospitals, but hard to believe so many medical facilities would be duped, gotta be selling to others too.

Grifter42 ago

250 a cornea seems pretty cheap, but I guess that's wholesale.