Cruise: I will eat placenta

The Evening Standard ^ | April 18, 2006 | Staff

[MadIvan]

Hollywood actor Tom Cruise is planning to eat his new baby's placenta, it emerged today.

It is the latest in a series of unusual revelations by the 43-year-old Mission Impossible star about the child he is expecting with fiancee Katie Holmes.

He told GQ magazine: "I'm gonna eat the placenta. I thought that would be good. Very nutritious. I'm gonna eat the cord and the placenta right there."

Cruise has also claimed he knew actress Holmes, 27, was pregnant, even before she told him.

A follower of Scientology, he has defended the religion's belief that women should give birth in silence.

"It's really about respecting the woman. It's not about her not screaming," he has told GQ.

Cruise, who also believes he can cure drug addicts, plans to marry Holmes in the summer. He said earlier this month that their baby was due "any day now".

[Beth528]

Disgusting,but I found it on the internet..


Placenta Recipes (Mothering Magazine, September 1983, Vol. 28, pg 76)

Editor's note: I have not heard of anyone who routinely makes a habit of eating placenta... it would be an 'after-the-birth-only' type activity. Many animals, including herbivores routinely eat their placentas, as it replaces vitamins and minerals lost during the labor process. Many women who have tried it swear they feel better faster, and they do not suffer from postpartum depression because of the nutrients the placenta has given them. It has been called a 'harmless' meat, as no creature is killed to procure it. Placentas should only be eaten fresh, if this is something that appeals to you.


Each placenta weighs approximately 1/6 of the baby's weight. Cut the meat away from the membranes with a sharp knife. Discard the membranes.

Placenta Cocktail:
1/4 cup raw placenta
8oz V-8 juice
2 ice cubes
1/2 cup carrot.
Blend at high speed for 10 seconds

Placenta Lasagne:
Use your favorite Lasagne recipe and substitute this mixture for one layer of cheese. In 2 tbl. olive oil, quickly saute meat of 3/4 placenta, ground or minced; plus 2 sliced cloves of garlic, 1/2 tsp. oregano, 1/2 diced onion & 2 tbl. tomato paste, or 1 whole tomato.

Placenta Spaghetti:
Cut meat of 3/4 placenta into bite size pieces, then brown quickly in 1 tbl. butter plus 1 tbl. oil. Then add 1 large can tomato puree, 2 cans crushed pear tomatoes, 1 onion, 2 cloves of garlic, 1 tbl. molasses, 1 bay leaf, 1 tbl. rosemary, 1 tsp. ea. of salt, honey, oregano, basil, and fennel. Simmer 1 1/2 hours.

Placenta Stew:
Meat of 3/4 placenta in bite size chunks, 1 potato (cubed), 1/4 cup fresh parsley, 2 carrots, 3 ribs celery, 1 zucchini, 1 large tomato, 1 small onion. Dredge meat in 1 tbl. flour mixed with 1 tsp. salt, 1/2 tsp. paprika, pinch of cloves, pinch of pepper, 6-8 crushed coriander seeds. Saute meat in 2 tbl. oil, then add vegetables (cut up) and 4-5 cups of water. Bring to full boil, then simmer for 1 hour.

Placenta Pizza:
Grind placenta. Saute in 2 tbl. olive oil with 4 garlic cloves, then add 1/4 tsp. fennel, 1/4 tsp. pepper, 1/4 tsp. paprika, 1/4 tsp. salt, 1/2 tsp. oregano, 1/4 tsp. thyme, and 1/4 cup of wine. Allow to stand for 30 minutes, then use with your favorite home made pizza recipe. It's a fine placenta sausage topping.

found at: http://rainforest.parentsplace.com/dialog/get/newf4homebirth1/49/3.html


Placenta Roast:

All "food" should be properly cleaned prior to cooking, and all "food" should be properly cooked prior to eating.

This is a good recipe for placenta, which should NOT go to waste:

INGREDIENTS:

1 to 3 lb. placenta no more than 3 days old
1 large onion
1 large green or red pepper (green will add color to the presentation)
1 cup tomato sauce
1 sleeve of saltine crackers
1 tsp crab or shrimp seasoning
1 tsp black pepper
1 tsp white pepper
1 clove garlic (roasted and minced)

DIRECTIONS:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Chop onion and green or red pepper in small cubes. Place in large bowl. Crush saltines into crumbs and add to onion and pepper cubes.

COMBINE IN LARGE BOWL:

Placenta, seafood seasoning, pepper, garlic, and tomato sauce. Place into aluminum loaf pan. Cover and bake for 1 and 1/2 hours, occasionally pouring off excess liquid. Retain liquid for gravy base if desired.

[Aggie Mama]

LOL! Well, I wasn't thinking in that direction...more along the lines of why on earth would he want to ingest that quantity of "female" hormones?

[TheForceOfOne]

Tom's Pals Warp Parade Poll


Excerpt:
April 18, 2006 -- TOM Cruise's cronies seem to have put a lot of effort into skewing a Parade magazine poll in his favor. Parade.com recently asked online readers whether they thought Cruise was responsible for his disastrous public relations year or if it was the media's fault. A shocking 84 percent of respondents blamed the press. But Parade publicist Alexis Collado tells us: "We at Parade found this a little bit fishy, so we did some investigating. We found out more than 14,000 (of the 18,000-plus votes) that came in were cast from only 10 computers!

[sandbar]

Eeewww!!! For those who don't know, that is the first baby poop.

[sandbar]

>>>How about Mo-Ron.>>>

LMAO!!!

[Aggie Mama]

Retain liquid for gravy base if desired.

I wish I knew how to post a picture of Homer Simspon. Mmmmmmmm placental gravy. ::::Shudder...making the sign of the cross:::::::

[Osage Orange]

I ate the placenta with some fava beans and a nice chianti.

[MadIvan]

Cruise obviously wants to get more in touch with his feminine side. Not that it wasn't already strangling him to death anyway.

Regards, Ivan

[OB1kNOb]

TOM CRUISE'S PREVIOUS MOVIES..

Mission Impassable

A Chew Good Men

Eyes Wide Gut

Top Gum

The Gore of the Worlds

Cord on the Fourth of July

Days of Chunder

Maternity Report

Interwomb with A Vampire

[Disambiguator]

You mean red or green (chile), don't you?

[Proud_USA_Republican]

Her catholic lawyer father is currently doing what many fathers of this day and age do. Spend the rest of their lives doing damage control as their daughters make idiotic decision after idiotic decision.

[Maximus of Texas]

Do you want fries with that?

(French Fries Ping?)

[KarlInOhio]

"We at Parade found this a little bit fishy, so we did some investigating. We found out more than 14,000 (of the 18,000-plus votes) that came in were cast from only 10 computers!

I'm shocked, shocked that people would do that to a poll.

Assuming all 14000 of those false votes were for "press's fault", that would leave the 4000 legitimate votes split 72%-28% thinking Tom Cruise is a loon.

[peacebaby]

there goes my oatmeal for breakfast!

[dfwgator]

[Jersey Republican Biker Chick]

SICKO!

[TheForceOfOne]

The press or Tom? Two horrible choices, neither has an ounce of credibility. lol

[peacebaby]

I've used hair shampoo with placenta in it...and we've all heard aboiut burying the placenta under a newly planted tree,

Tom Cruise is beginnning to look more and more like a vampire.

[sully777]

[Zavien Doombringer]

I garrruuunteee!