Placenta: Food of the Gods!?!

If you were to tell me that the Zombie uprising has already begun, I’d probably believe you. That’s because there is craze over {Gags} Placenta!

Yes the Placenta! That nasty slab of meat that serves as the primary bond between mother and child. For the unaware, the placenta is linked to the child’s umbilical cord and carries oxygen and food to the unborn baby. It also carries the waste from the child into the mother’s bloodstream for proper disposal. So it makes you wonder, why in the world would anyone want to eat it?

You’d be amazed at the amount of recipes there are for this funky meat. There’s pasta, smoothies, steamed and fried. I’ve seen animals eat it (for the nutrition) or I’d like to think because they don’t know any better, but why humans?

The eating of placenta is called Placentophagy. Some will say because of the nutrients it’s essential and deters postpartum depression. However  Obstetrician and spokesperson Maggie Blott disputes the post-natal depression theory. She believes humans are already well nourished, so there’s no real reason behind it.

In 2006 after Tom Cruise and wife Katie Holmes gave birth to their child Suri, Cruise told GQ magazine about eating his child’s placenta. When informed that the placenta is one sixth the child’s weight, he became defensive:

“You don’t know placentas,” said Mr. Cruise. “I do. I’ve studied placentas. I know dozens of ways to prepare them. I know what wines go with them. What do you know?”

Apparently Cruise likes his placenta served as tartare or in meatloaf. He even went on to describe the taste saying it “reminds him of veal, but with a springier texture like heart.”

Maybe I’m missing out on something, but placenta appears to be The Food of the Gods. I mean people are going ape shit over the bloody piece of meat exiting the vagina. It’s the new wave of cannibalism, the new red meat!

PLACENTA! IT’S WHAT’S FOR DINNER!!!

Placenta Smoothie Recipe 

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