Global Demand for Human Body Parts: Difference between revisions

As a result of the global demand for healthy human body parts for transplantation that far exceeds the numbers available, the commercial business and black market forms of human body trading and the trafficking of human organs and tissues has skyrocketed. Illegal organ trading nets more than $1 billion each year. The extremely profitable business of selling human body parts has made those involved disturbingly complacent about the unethical ways human bodies are being treated during and after the death process. [[Organ Harvesting]] is directly related to human and child trafficking, and transplant tourism, where human body parts are bought, sold, and traded by any means necessary, with no questions asked about where and how the body part was taken. The demand for kidneys has reached epidemic levels in the United States, as when people are desperate they are willing to take desperate measures. As a result desperate people are going to the black market and unwittingly conspiring in the stealing of organs, often taking them out of victims without their consent. In addition to unscrupulous doctors and organized criminals, people are commonly murdered for their organs, and most times it is in the poverty stricken areas, where trafficked children or those that are severely underprivileged are exclusively targeted for their organs.