“Donating plasma, they said, is not labor. In fact, they argued, the plasma pool is a sector for the United States economy so important that it was declared a matter of national security in a different case.” United StatesPlasmaBlood EconomyPlasma Donation Book:Blood Money: The Story of Life, Death, and Profit Inside America's Blood Industry Source: Blood Money: The Story of Life, Death, and Profit Inside America's Blood Industry
“There is an obvious contradiction here. If one agency [U.S. Customs and Border Protection] of the U.S. government believes that Mexican nationals crossing over the border to sell plasma amounts to day labor, why then are millions of others who sell their plasma within the Unites States considered donors, not workers? The industry has more than tripled in its physical presence since 2005, all while insisting the payments for plasma are token of appreciation for people's time, not their labor. The federal government has not intervene in this arrangement anywhere but at the Mexico border.” United StatesMexicoPlasmaBlood EconomyPlasma Donation Author:Kathleen McLaughlin