The WTS long ago permitted the use of vaccinations, even though they knew at the time that blood is a common ingredient, such as horse's blood in vaccines for treating snake bite. The WTS knew they had to accept vaccinations, otherwise they could not travel internationally.
When in 1964 they said it was ok to accept such vaccinations, this is their reasoning: "He is not directly eating blood . . . (and) it is not used for food or to replace lost blood." (Watchtower November 15, 1964, page 682)
So having a vaccine that contans blood is not eating it, yet having say red corpuscles injected is eating it. And where does "replacing lost blood" fit in with any so-called Biblical injunction?
The WTS at one stage provided a list of products containing blood, stating that "none (of these products) is in accord with the Biblical method of handling blood." (Watchtower November 15, 1964, page 681).
They continued, giving this list:
"Adhesives for making plywood, particle board, hardboard, bottle crowns, furniture and musical instruments. Blood is also being used in polymerization of rubber compounds, insecticidal binder, settling compound for industrial waste treatment, clear water purification (paper industry), uranium purification, foaming agent for lightweight cellular concrete, fire foaming agent, wine clarifying agent, paper coatings and binders, paper flocculants and sizes, replacement of casein in latex emulsions, emulsified asphalt, cork composition, photoengraving platemaking solutions, leather-finishing operations, water-resistant binder of pigments for print dying on cotton cloth, fertilizers, animal foods, and amino acid production, such as histidine and histamine, for example. . . None of these is in accord with the Biblical method of handling blood." (Watchtower November 15, 1964, page 681)
The WTS stated:
"(These) uses of blood today are objectionable from the Biblical viewpoint (but since) it becomes almost impossible for (Jehovah's Witnesses) to avoid all contact with them - leather goods, furniture, bottle tops, cotton cloth, and so forth (what he does) is a matter of conscience . . . a personal decision." (op. cit., pages 681,682)
It is left to the conscience of the Witness whether he buys, sells or rents a house "in which plywood is found" and it is up to his conscience whether he works for a company that uses blood glue or not (op. cit., page 682)
"(Jehovah's Witnesses) may sell blood items to worldly persons in a drug store or will spread blood fertilizer on the field of a worldly employer at his request." (Watchtower November 15, 1964, page 681)
Give me a break. Start with a lie and that's where it leads.