illegal harvesting independent research

1. Illegal harvesting-
independent research
By Daisy Littlewood

2. What is organ
harvesting?
When does it become
illegal?
Forced organ harvesting is the illegal practice
of surgically removing a victims organs
against their will for the purpose of
commercial transactions. The organs are
then sold on the black market.
Organ harvesting in a safe sterile hospital
with the persons consent is a surgical
procedure that removes organs or tissues for
reuse, typically for organ transplantation. This
is done by professionals who have trained in
this sector.
Organ trade, also known as Red market, is the
trading of human organs, tissues, or other
body products, usually for transplantation.
According to the World Health
Organization organ trade is a commercial
transplantation where there is a profit, or
transplantations that occur outside of
national medical systems.

3. Where does illegal organ donation take
place?
• Research indicates that illegal organ trade is on the
rise, with a recent report by global financial
integrity estimating that the illegal organ trade
generates profits between $600 million and $1.2
billion per year.
• Criminal networks increasingly engage in
kidnappings, especially of children and teenagers,
who are then taken to locations with medical
equipment. There they are murdered and their
organs harvested for the illegal organ trade.
• These places are often unsterile places making
the patients receiving them more at risk.

4. Media portrayal
• There have been various portrayals of illegal organ trafficking in the media over the past few
decades. 12 hour shift is an american black comedy horror released in 2020 which involves a drug
addict nurse involved in a black market organ traiding scheme in 1999. Mandy, the nurse, finances her
drug habit by harvesting patient organs.

5. Practical elements
How to make realistic fake blood:
• Combine 2 tablespoons corn-starch, 4 teaspoons
water, 1 teaspoon corn syrup, 1 tablespoon
onion flakes, and 4 drops red food colouring.
Clump it onto your skin and let dry.
What animal organs look most like humans organs:
• The size and anatomy of the pig heart is roughly
the same as human, easy acsess from butchers
as they are scraps therfore cheap.

6. The body on the
operating table
• The actor could be lying on the operating table
and then a tray with pig intestines on the
actors stomach with the surgical sheet over
most of their body with a whole for the access
of the organs