Ep. 452: The Guru Comes Up for Air
The MeatEater Podcast
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The Role of Organ Trafficking in India
I was trying to understand how the legal market works, and the patterns in all the organs and all the body parts that are sold. The rule of organ trafficking is once you start thinking about the body as a commodity, like it's the same rules as Nike shoes at the end of the day. Well, it's going to be you try to buy low and sell high and you minimize your risk. I went on to the border of India and Nepal where there's a blood shortage and I met this guy who had... He would go to the bus station, find someone who was like addicted to heroin or something like that, offer them like a thousand rupees, 1500 rupees. That
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