Vampires!?

Blood!?

1. Animals evolved blood to carry oxygen, glucose, and other nutrients to cells and carbon dioxide and waste products away.
2. Blood also provides the mechanism by which the products of cells--proteins--circulate and tell other cells what to do and how to do it.
3. ERGO: NO BLOOD, NO LIFE. There are, of course, some exceptions but the FUNCTION of blood is present in all multicellular organisms.
4. Vampire bats are not the only creatures who drink or eat blood. Blood has been part of the diet of carnivores or omnivores "forever."
5. Unfiltered, "raw" blood is also a major source of microbial infection. The dietary prohibition against blood that exists in many religious traditions is probably based on this fact.
6. Blood is eaten/drunk in several forms: liquid, in puddings, and in meat/casserole concoctions.
7. What we euphemistically call "juice" in meat is, in fact, blood or some component thereof. Get over it.
8. Fantasy vampirism is stupid. Vampirism is a metaphor for sexual predation. It is NOT "romantic".
9. Blood pudding is GROSS!!
10. Questions? Let me know.