Cooking Your Placenta

Ok Dave, I challenge your primordial high minded thinking... You eat a placenta and tell the audience how absolutely high mindedly delicious it is! Please tell us Dave, and then tell us why it would'nt just be easier to go buy a top sirlion, some mushrooms, bell peppers, small tomatos and onions and make a wonderful batch of shish-ka-bobs to celebrate the birth. Please man, get real.

I would rather take a bite out of a prepared placenta than a mushroom. Anyhow, it is not something I'd ever order off of a menu. However, it is not something I would frown upon others about. There are two organs that the human body produces and discards throughout its life. The Tymus, infants have during their first year of life and is then disolved, and the placenta, grown in a woman's body during pregnancy. C'mon Chris, we aren't talking Human hearts or lungs here.

Sorry to seperate:

Nor am I saying pull a Hannibal Lector and tell everyone after they have eaten that it was indeed their orchestra's trumpet player that was exquisite not a delicious filet mignon. *Which yes, is a cow's ass*

What are we arguing here?

Actually Dave there is more then one organ the human body can live without, the gall bladder, spleen and in some cases one kidney. Now, if you think eating disposable human organs is a great thing to do then why dont you shop at a surgery center for your next meal. I find it barbaric to eat human flesh in any case, personaly I hardly eat red meat at all because of my polycystic kidney desease Im mostly on a soy diet. So, when the day comes that one of my kidneys fails I be sure to let you know! I hear human kidney is great with a fine Chanti and favah beans! LOL

The Tymus and the Placenta are very important 'disposable' organs that are indeed naturally temporary organs. Unlike the spleen, appendix, and gallbladder that need to be removed.

I just think saying that it is barbaric for these cultures that have rituals in regards to the placenta is a bit closed minded.

Although the placenta is revered in many cultures, very few customarily eat the placenta after the newborn's birth. Those who advocate placentophagy in humans, mostly in modern America and Europe, Hawaii and the Pacific Islands believe that eating the placenta prevents postpartum depression and other pregnancy complications. Human placenta tastes very similar to beef, with a springy texture similar to the heart. A variety of recipes are known to exist for preparing placenta for eating.

Obstetrician Maggie Blott opposes the post-natal depression theory. Blott, a spokeswoman for the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, says there's no medical justification at all; "Animals eat their placenta to get nutrition but when people are already well-nourished, there is no benefit, there is no reason to do it".
Human placenta has also been an ingredient in some traditional Chinese medicines.
So, Dave as you can see very few people eat placentas. Its not really a cultural thing, its more like a bizaare fetish. It serves no real purpose as a nutritional product, eating a placenta is illogical and not needed in todays world. If its a matter of vegetarians getting to enjoy cruelty free meat, that also is beyond logic because most vegetarians become sickened by the taste of meat in the first place. I seriously doubt a vegetarian would even consider the notion. So in all honesty, it is barbaric, bizaare and completely wierd. Its not cultural and not humanly natural.

gross

sick

nasty people !!`~
i would never do that
i don't even no how i got on this site but gross
awwhh.............

I can understand why some people would find the practice unsettling, though the vehemence of a few of these comments is rather surprising. Nazis? Really?? Many cultures do this, EVERY mammal does it, and the practice has proven health benefits. IF you have a strong reaction, maybe try doing a little research before you respond in ignorance and make an ass of yourself.

I honestly think people are making a bigger deal about this than they need to. I have, in fact, heard of vegetarians eating their placentas, or taking it in pill form at the very least. And honestly, a lot of people in the modern world are more malnourished than they think, so really, the eating of the placenta can still be a huge benefit to the mother. Men, on the other hand, have no real reason to eat the placenta apart from curiosity. I can see people being disgusted, and I certainly understand the reasoning behind it all, but for those who choose to do it, they could have a very good reasoning behind it.

And for the person who mentioned cannibalism in history, saying that since it happened we might as well consider it good... Cannibalism has actually led to stronger immunity in our species, and everybody has an ancestor that has eaten another person. In some forms, cannibalism is actually a total religious experience. Not to mention the symbolic cannibalism in say... Communion? "This is my body, and this is my blood"
Not that I'd like to sit down to a nice roast of any of you, or even someone who died of natural causes, but it's not a choice I would condemn someone for if they had the permission of the deceased beforehand, and they had a legitimate religious reason for doing it.