JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: IN CASE YOU THOUGHT YOU'D HEARD EVERYTHING STUPID FROM AMERICA, HERE'S A SCHEME FOR PEOPLE TRYING TO BUY YOUTH WITH BLOOD TAKEN FROM TEENAGERS

COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE IN THE INDEPENDENT

Teenagers' blood being sold for £6,200 a shot

Founder claims treatment is 'like plastic surgery from the inside out'

Organized, mechanized vampirism.

And here I thought I'd heard about everything truly absurd from America, but the country just keeps inventing new ones.

Too many people with more money than brains and, certainly, good sense.

This is stupid by every possible measure.

First, donated blood only remains in your body a very limited time. It ain't like replacing broken bricks in an old building.

Second, this will generate a street market for teen-age blood with all the risks which that entails - drugs, AIDS, hepatitis, etc. People selling the stuff to fools at these rates are not going to be overly-fussy about their supply sources.

Third, for the great majority of teenagers it would be illegal to donate without parental consent. So, just imagine the greedy parents who begin pushing their kids into becoming blood-cows.

Think of all those gross American parents who now push their kids into everything from beauty contests for five year-olds to desperately seeking child parts in movies, a process which so often involves exposure to pedophilia.