[identity profile] bruce munro (from livejournal.com) 2015-10-17 06:57 pm (UTC)(link)
"Not to mention that the law requires that 99+% of each Unwind be used for transplants, which is impossible. Just how many left ear transplants are performed each year?"

Perhaps it's like the situation in "The Midas Plague", and the poor have to take up the surplus of unwanted parts, so trailer park inhabitants usually have four ears, two noses, and feet growing out of their shoulders?

[identity profile] resonant.livejournal.com 2015-10-19 01:49 am (UTC)(link)
If the unused parts are converted into sausage and eaten, then they technically have been transplanted into someone else's body.