Blood transfusions should be denied to anyone working at the FDA.
No, let them bleed to death. Hemorrhage and die. If they wish to keep our blood supply short for no reason at all, they should be the first to accept the consequences.

From UKGay.com: (actually an AP story)

Gay men remain barred from donating blood, the U.S. government said Wednesday, leaving in place a 1983 prohibition meant to prevent the spread of H.I.V. through transfusions.

The Food and Drug Administration reaffirmed the policy on its Web site on Wednesday, more than a year after the Red Cross and two other blood groups criticised the ban as “medically and scientifically unwarranted.”

“I am disappointed, I must confess,” said Dr. Celso Bianco, executive vice president of America’s Blood Centers, whose members provide nearly half the nation’s blood supply.

Before giving blood, all men are asked if they have had sex, even once, with another man since 1977, when the AIDS epidemic began in the United States, according to the drug agency.

So according to the FDA, all gay men, even if they’ve had sex once with another man who was HIV negative and used a condom, are a “risk” to the nation’s blood supply.

Or if the guy had sex with another man in 1979, and then decided he liked women better, and is HIV negative–the FDA also considers him “too risky” to donate blood.

The FDA, as they keep proving over and over, does not operate according to scientific data, common sense, or intelligence. This gay thing I assume is just part of the politics that has taken over the organization, and been responsible for most of their recent declarations–like that marijuana has no medicinal value, despite the IOM report saying the opposite and hundreds of scientific studies; their faltering on Plan B, and now gay men.

Politics and assuring the financial health of the industries that they are supposed to be regulating. What a great organization the FDA is. Well, my original remedies still hold. Send them to China where they know how to take care of corrupt officials. Make them eat the tainted pet food that they dragged their feet about, and still can’t come up with an explanation for it. And let them bleed to death. Deny anyone working at the FDA a blood transfusion.