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  Who do you think owns the blood-banks?
  Every Phlebotomist is a vampire, or a 'vamp-famliar'
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  Look... There's nothing like pulling straight from the source. It's warm, vibrant, and you can feel the life leaving them which is a sweet bonus. Drinking some cold shit from a bag is just meh. >
  
  Don't knock it. Up in Canada, we used to sell milk in bags. >
  
  Still do >
  
  Used to too. >
  
  r/suddenlymitchhedberg >
  
  Cold blood sustains, for sure. But most literature describes the 'kiss' as something pleasurable, addicting even.
  In the World of Darkness games it's even said to be better than an orgasm. 
  Now who wouldn't want that? >
  
  Most vampires are evil and like to kill. Prefer warm fresh blood. >
  
  Or just bite someone. You say it makes no sense. Vampires are usually evil soulless monsters. >
  
  The world has plenty of evil soulless monsters already, a vampire could blend in easily. >
  
  The point wasn’t about blending in though >
  
  Unless the vampire consortium set up blood banks and thats why they are always "low" >
  
  Makes sense. As a frequent donor I shudder at the thought of providing free food to the vampire mafia. >
  
  Yeah but maybe it goes to orphan vampires, who parents were killed, at a cheap price instead of them having to fend for themselves. >
  
  If they are like human mafia I don't have much hope in that thought :( >
  
  well some are using the myth that vampires can't drink dead blood, like once it's outside of the body for awhile or from a deceased. >
  
  I worked in a blood bank for awhile, and I can say that if blood were going missing people would find out. Everything, even the waste, needs to be reconciled and accounted for - if a single unit bag went missing, we had 72 hours to find it or the FDA would be notified.
  Sure, the vampires could try plucking bags out of the biohazard bins at the end of the day, but that'd be a grab bag of accidental waste, diseased units, and other things they probably wouldn't want to drink.
  Edit: the reason for this scrutiny was two-fold:
  
  So that we could track the waste occurring and it's causes.
  So that we could be absolutely certain where a unit was, even if discarded, in case we later found out it was contaminated, or the donor was sick, or something. No one wants a blood bag ending up in a hospital and not being located after a donor calls in that they vomited all day after the donation. Or accidentally getting shipped when it should have ended up in the biohazard waste. >
  
  Definitely true in US and in most countries for the reasons specified. 
  I guess the fictional premise would be that blood is taken out using fake patients that never needed blood donation. >
  
  Have none of you watched blade? 
  Iirc the vampires robbed blood banks >
  
  
  They dont sell that to random people.
  Depends on the type of vampire. Some need fresh blood, some get aroused by it.
  If they are not hidden from the world, they will either rule humans, or be treted like a mix between war criminals, murderers and child abusers. That is to say hunted down, legally or not. >
  
  There's this really shitty vampire movie with Tom Hiddleston and Cate Blanchett playing a married vampire couple and they actually get all their blood from a doctor that steals it from the hospital's blood bank and sells it to them🤔 that's probably the only thing that makes any sense in this movie lol >
  
  Only lovers left alive. 
  Great movie! >
  
  I’m evil bro!!! I’m nefarious bro!!! I commit atrocities bro!!! >
  
  I’m Vampire Riiiiiiiiiick >
  
  What if vampires are allergic to blood coagulants? If should technically cause indigestion to them. >
  
  Depends. In Being Human every new vampire robs a blood bank rather than murder. It doesn't work.
  But in Being Human they don't even need blood to sustain themselves. It's more like a racially-ordained drug addiction, and only blood drained in the act of killing someone can satisfy it. >
  
  Tons of modern and urban fantasy books use this to separate the 'good' vampires from the 'evil' or 'old school' vampires. The good ones are inevitably tempted by the real stuff, straight from the source, however. >
  
  Modern romance stories make no sense because sperm banks and labs exist ? >
  
  OP.. got you there!
  🤣
  The act of feeding is llke hunting or intimacy to vampire.
  Probably. >
  
  Has anyone ever addressed the possibility that sharks are vampire dolphins? >
  
  Being that some people are just assholes I would have to say some vampires would just be assholes as well. Misery loves company. >
  
  Blood banks exist BECAUSE vampires. Now they don’t kill they just LIVE! >
  
  Do you ear an apple right after harvest or after it has laid on the shelf for a week? >
  
  Well vampires are not supposed to be morally correct or anything along those lines. Stealing(prey) nor abiding by the moral codes is in their nature. 
  So they couldn’t care less about any of that. They hunt. And what’s exciting for a hunter, you ask? The chase, the thrill and the excitement of having an upper hand over your prey. So they indulge in sadism. Simple as that. >
  
  Make it even easier. Just get a job as a phlebotomist then do the blood drive circuit. Hot blood buffet everyday!
  But now I'll be leery of any fat pale phlebotomists. >
  
  Or it's not really the blood, it's the life force of the person they're biting. Vampires aren't alive, they don't have a biological need to eat. One can assume that drinking blood from a living person is the only way it works. >
  
  vampires wouldnt want to use blood banks because blood banks save lives, more lives they can suck fresh blood from. >
  
  Very little of the population donates for medical reasons. That would be very rude of a vampire to use that as a source. >
  
  in my babysitter is a vampire (the show) they address blood banks >
  
  Blood banks are like packaged ramen for vampires. Good for a snack, but unsustainable to live on. Hot blood gushing over the lips slaps hard. >
  
  Not all vampires consume blood for its own sake. It's just needed to open a channel between the vampire and the victim which is then used to drain their life force. Old blood or blood that has been processed (e.g. platelett removal, etc) is a very poor channel. >
  
  A bad vampire is going to want to take it from the source. Savor the kill.
  A good vampire could make the argument that stealing from blood banks is just killing innocent people by proxy. They'd just target bad people. >
  
  Marcelines short story in adventure time is great at this. She learns that she can suck the color red out of things so she usually wears red (and grey) clothes but one day she decides she doesnt want to be a vampire anymore so PB takes her to the lab to drain her vampire essence but doing that causes all the old vamps she killed (and stole their powers like flight and shape shifting) to come back to life and start killing people so she goes on a kill bill style quest to either convince them to drink red or die >
  
  Morbius was a doctor in the movie and comics, his whole thing was working to cure his blood disease so he had access to both real and synthetic blood bags for research before becoming a vampire, the synthetic blood was enough to keep him alive but made him get sick if he drank it instead of real blood >
  
  It's like saying why it a steak when you have spam right there on a can.