Monday, November 13, 2006

Kidneys for Sale

Remember the movie "The Island"? Probably not. It was about a colony of clones raised to provide body parts to their rich originals. Ironically, it turned out to be a clone of the movie "Clonus" made in the late seventies ( And now being sued for being an illegal clone). But why go to such outlandish futuristic scenarios when real colonies for body parts (atleast kidneys) exist where people willingly give away body parts. They are called poor people in poor countries (http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/11/12/pakistan.kidney.ap/index.html). If just enough people can be kept poor enough an ample supply of kidneys can be had. The price is well within the reach of anyone from the lower middle class in the developed countries; You can have it for less than a good plasma TV.