Way way before Trump was running, my local newspaper had an article about some startup in CA selling adolescent blood to rich people for more energy or something. I. Could. Not. Believe. My. Eyes. They were open about it. I never saw anything else about this until Q.
A friend of mine who was a young teenager in CA, about 12-13 years ago, told me how they were heavily pressured by the school to donate blood. Heavily. She did reluctantly although being tiny and slim, she only weighed 90 or 95 pounds, and almost fainted or did. Was weak afterwards. She never “donated” again. Red Cross... Q told us about them. Lucky she only got her blood taken.
Is nothing sacred?
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Is Whiskey Evaporation Bad for the Environment? A Scottish Politician Wants to Know
(snip)Climate change is a growing threat to humanity, and the food and beverage industry certainly shares part of the blame. Agricultural machinery adds to carbon dioxide emissions. Cattle are a large source of methane. And when making Scotch, ethanol evaporates into the atmosphere which… Wait, is that bad? One member of the Scottish parliament wants to know.
The “angels’ share” is a well-known phenomenon in whiskey production: Alcohol evaporates even more readily than water, and so when producing Scotch, inevitably, some of that booze evaporates out of the barrel, which is humorously known as the “angels’ share.” But is this evaporating ethanol problematic?
That’s funny because I’ve had petite women under a hundred pounds tell me that they were not ALLOWED to donate blood. And it was longer ago than that.