BBC reports:

China is trying to move away from the use of executed prisoners as the major source of organs for transplants.

According to the China Daily newspaper, executed prisoners currently provide two-thirds of all transplant organs.

The government is now launching a voluntary donation scheme, which it hopes will also curb the illegal trafficking in organs.

Trying? How hard are they trying? China sometimes is a blind shaft.

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4 replies on “Death Row Farming”

  1. I think that is a great idea to harvest prisoners organs. If they are on death row they have obviously done something so horrendous to merit such punishment. Why not as a last chance good deed help someone have a life?

  2. You know, if we drafted all Talibangelist Republicans and shipped them over to Iraq to provide cover while our troops came home, we could use the organs from them to help little kids who need hearts, kidneys, and livers.

    The brains, of course, would be useless, cause nobody wants an unpatriotic Talibangelist brain.

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