Saturday, July 4, 2009

Would You Eat Your Own Placenta?

Hmmm. Time Magazine article on expecting mothers preparing their placenta for future consumption after childbirth.

Screw gender sensitivity, GROSS.

http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1908194,00.html

Crazy excerpt:


"As she steamed the placenta with some herbs, the kitchen got that ironlike smell of cooked organ meat, with vague undertones of a consciousness-raising group and a Betty Friedan rally. Sara said Cassandra had a particularly robust placenta, and she hoped to get 120 pills out of it. As she sliced the cooked organ and put it on parchment paper in a dehydrator, she told me that some people drink the placenta raw as a smoothie. "I do this for a living, and I couldn't do that," she said. The pills, she explained, were superior, since Cassandra could stretch their hormone-rich benefits much further, perhaps even freezing some for menopause. Sara did not understand that when Cassandra's looks fade in her 50s, there's no way I'm putting up with this crap."

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