This "adrenochrome" shit sounds like a red herring. Apparently, it can be synthesized in a lab (assuming it is actually a real chemical.) So why go to the trouble of stealing and torturing kids when you can make it in a lab?

Not to say that I don't believe there isn't a very lucrative trade in humans and their body parts, just like with every other animal on the planet, and that these trades are linked very strongly to the hard drugs trades. But the adrenochrome thing seems like the sketchy shit that gives deniers the "but muh pizza parlour don't have no basement so there's no such thing as child trafficking at all" bullshit to try to cover the whole thing up as bullshit.