WikiBooks: Cooked Placenta, a tasty dish that the whole family will love Options

[Killiondude]

Cookbook:Placenta with Broccoli

This is a tasty dish that the whole family will love.

Discuss.

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[Abd]

As a midwife, we ended up with lots of these. For my own kids, the placentas were buried in the back yard under a rose bush. Those roses were spectacular! Some people did, indeed, eat them. I never tasted it, I wasn't invited to any of these meals.

It's part of the baby, not of the mom.

There could now be reasons to preserve these in some way, perhaps cryogenically, for the stem cells. But I liked that teddy bear that someone made. After all, the baby slept next to that placenta, a part of himself or herself, for nine months....

[thekohser]

...the placentas...

It's part of the baby, not of the mom.

I hate to call you on your biology mistake, Abd, but I have it on good authority that even a 10-year-old should know that "the special organ of the placenta is formed during pregnancy and is shared between mother and child".

[Abd]

...the placentas...It's part of the baby, not of the mom.

I hate to call you on your biology mistake, Abd, but I have it on good authority that even a 10-year-old should know that "the special organ of the placenta is formed during pregnancy and is shared between mother and child".

Not a biology mistake, Greg. Just a different interpretation of what "shared" means, and what I meant by "part of the baby."

From that paragon of accuracy, Wikpedia, Placenta, The placenta develops from the same sperm and egg cells that form the fetus, and functions as a fetomaternal organ with two components, the fetal part (Chorion frondosum), and the maternal part (Decidua basalis).
That is, the placenta grows from the fertilized egg, and is specialized to extract nutrients from the mother's blood, through attaching and growing into the uterine wall, like some symbiotic leech. It is very much a part of the baby.

The Placentophagy article does leave something to be desired, eh? I think the argument presented, though, isn't a bad one.... it just doesn't belong, stated the way it is, in a Wikipedia article. But what do you do when there is a reliable source that says something really stupid? I sympathize.

I find it odd that some here imagine that people who might eat the placenta are "out of touch with reality." Human birth and placentas are definitely real. How many here have actually touched a placenta? And do these who have not think they are somehow more in touch with "reality" because of this. I'd say the opposite. Birth, for most people, is hidden away, sometimes even more than death.

I handled over about thirty placentas myself. But didn't eat them. All but four were not mine ("ours") to eat. Would I do so if invited? Probably. Yuppie, folks, I am definitely not. Kooky, okay, SB_Johnny seems to think so. I'd definitely rather be "kooky" than "normal." What's a "normal" Wikipedia editor like?

[Subtle Bee]

I find it odd that some here imagine that people who might eat the placenta are "out of touch with reality." Human birth and placentas are definitely real. How many here have actually touched a placenta?

umm, everyone? (IMG:smilys0b23ax56/default/wtf.gif)

[EricBarbour]

I find it odd that some here imagine that people who might eat the placenta are "out of touch with reality." Human birth and placentas are definitely real. How many here have actually touched a placenta?

umm, everyone? (IMG:smilys0b23ax56/default/wtf.gif)

I beg to differ. SlimVirgin and Will Beback are clearly artificial life forms. (IMG:smilys0b23ax56/default/happy.gif)