by VIII 19 Replies latest jw friends
Read this story in Time magazine.
Bon appetit!
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1908194,00.html
Here is the video from Time's website if you actually want to see it happening:
http://www.time.com/time/video/?bcpid=1485842900&bctid=27457107001
Would a JW eat a placenta?
well by the time it was scrubbed n steamed theyd probably finished off any goodness left in it, ida thought a quick flash fry and rare would have preserved more of the nutrients
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/101944.stm got complaints when someone did it on telly here
OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That is just wrong!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
L.L.
From the story:
"Though I am exceedingly squeamish, when my son was born, I was shocked that I saw only the beauty of childbirth. Until the placenta came out. There are many normal human reactions to seeing a placenta, ranging from screaming to vomiting to warding it off with a cross.
It's what your liver would look like if it got into an accident on the autobahn with one of those aliens from Mars Attacks! and their bloody carcasses threw jellyfish at each other.
When the placenta did come out, Cassandra, dazed from 21 hours of labor, somehow made sure the nurses delivered it to us in a flat plastic container, which I put into an ice-filled Monsters vs Aliens cooler I brought. When I asked if I could keep the placenta overnight in the refrigerator out in the hall, the nurses looked at me like I was crazy. When you gross out people who work at a hospital, you have accomplished something.
she told me that some people drink the placenta raw as a smoothie."
Seriously, you are eating the stuff that came out of you. Granted, it is cooked and dehydrated, but, OMG!!!
There has to be a better way. There just has to be. Just because animals do it is not a good reason.
Wasn't this what Tom Cruise was going to do/did?
The only placenta I've ever seen was the one of my last child. Hubby claims he's seen every one of them from our four births. I've heard of people eating it for some sort of spiritual meaning. I'd rather have some ribs.
I've seen lots of cow afterbirth. It's just a runny, gooey, bloody mess.
This is just to gross!!
Ribs! Yes, yes, yes.
I was going to have sushi tonight, but, now I'm thinking ribs. Yum!
Thanks mrsjones.
I have a friend who is having a baby and is due next week. I asked her about the placenta and she literally gagged and asked if I were crazy. I showed her the hard copy of Time and she said people that would do this are crazy.
I decided not to ask if I could have it.
That is gross, but the placenta has been used in many products that we use for years. The hospital actually saves it and sells it by the pound to companies.
I saw a freezer full of placentas waiting to be sold at the hospital, gross too.
When I had my first child, the placenta was by all estimates, the most disturbing thing. No way would I want to eat it or take it home.
