But did she do it Dothraki style? (Game of Thrones)Taking this in a different direction than most would.
Who does the placenta belong to; the mother or the baby?
The placenta is the transition point between the body of the mother and the child. One side of this membrane is the supply of nutrients and oxygen the other is the pickup point for these supplies for the child.
So in my mind it is in reality the placenta is the property of both the mother and the child.
But of course the mother is the only one of the two capable of ingesting the placenta at the time of birth.
Now all we need are some good recipes for placenta.
You might be able to use a good haggis recipe.
Half Guilty
Absolutely NOT GUILTY.
You know? As nasty and funky as this idea seems at first, I don’t think it’s necessarily all that bad an idea. Seeing as how it’s made into pill form it would be pretty simple to consume. I’ve seen enough mother animals eat theirs to know it’s a common act in the animal kingdom. Maybe it helps the mother in the same vague way children are helped by having their mother’s milk instead of formula. Although how would the woman be certain of what she’s swallowing? What if she gets ripped off? Could be dehydrated liver for all she knows.
Anyway, maybe it’s a good idea. Or not. Hell, I don’t know. It’s not ever going to come up for me.
As the mother of more children than all but one other FReeper (iirc, and there are some dads of more), I say this is totally disgusting. Other species eat their babies, too, if they take a notion.
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Did she have fries with that?
Well, those other mammals aren't sending their placentas out to be dehydrated and put into little capsules either. They just chow the sucker down raw and whole right on the spot.
Might help her acting. Couldn’t hurt.
Are there any kind of stem cells in the placenta that could be useful? Better than embryonic. Nobody dies.
Stir Fry, anyone?
I’v eheard of this before and no matter how you slice it (ha) it is fruit-loops crazy weird!
That why her character got fat this season?
“...but we’re the only mammals who don’t ingest our own placentas.”
I call Bravo Sierra on this. We breed alpacas. We have had many births here on the farm. NOT ONE of our girls ate the placenta. And yes, they are mammals.
This is what happens when people think of themselves as just another animal.
Um....NO.