The placenta is not suitable as a 'superfood'

Did you do like me and have to read the title twice? I can't believe they had to file and actual warning for mothers not to consume the placenta

More and more women want to take their own placenta with them after childbirth in order to eat it for "health reasons." This phenomenon is growing, especially in the USA, but also in Europe, although physicians are increasingly expressing concerns about it. One example is the gynaecologist Alex Farr from the University Clinic for Gynaecology at the MedUni Vienna, who has now published a recent paper in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology.
 "Medically speaking, the placenta is a waste product. Most mammals eat the placenta after birth, but we can only guess why they do so. After the placenta is genetically part of the newborn, eating the placenta borders on cannibalism. 

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So ATS, do you like your placenta medium rare or well done?

a reply to: Quadrivium

The placenta is not suitable as a 'superfood'

Thank God



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a reply to: seasonal

Well to stay true to ATS, what if it's a conspiracy? What if it really is a superfood and they put out this article just to hoard all of the placenta for themselves?
Dang it! I demand the placenta!

a reply to: Quadrivium

Disgusting.....

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No words......

a reply to: Quadrivium
Superfood or otherwise no.

I like odd foods-beef tongue, liver, other various organ meat. But I would not even try placenta, never. There isn't enough garlic butter to make it OK.

originally posted by: snowspirit
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No words......

Speechless or chewing?

I just ate some Jello. I now feel like I have to Puke after reading this.

I sure hope they cook it.

In the wild If a mother is taken while giving birth, predators consume the placenta last.

a reply to: Quadrivium

Someone might want to tell that to Tom Cruise.

a reply to: Quadrivium

I don't think I'll be eating anything for the rest of the night........

originally posted by: seasonal
a reply to: Quadrivium
Superfood or otherwise no.

I like odd foods-beef tongue, liver, other various organ meat. But I would not even try placenta, never. There isn't enough garlic butter to make it OK.

I like beef tongue, liver, heart, and soup made from bones. I like chicken gizzards cooked too. But this sounds gross, then women ewww at me eating that stuff I eat.

If I were lost in the woods with my wife, she was about to give birth I'd eat placenta.

originally posted by: rickymouse
I just ate some Jello. I now feel like I have to Puke after reading this.

I sure hope they cook it.

Actually they dehydrate it, grind it into powder and add it to jello.

a reply to: rickymouse



Nope, never. Bio-waste.

I hear it tastes like chicken.

originally posted by: seasonal
a reply to: rickymouse

Nope, never. Bio-waste.

Yummmmmm. J-E-L-L-O

Nature has a reason for everything, everything serves a purpose.

There has to be a reason why animals eat the placenta, otherwise they wouldn't do it.

Animals don't do things 'just because'.

Om Nom Nom Nom

originally posted by: Quadrivium

originally posted by: rickymouse
I just ate some Jello. I now feel like I have to Puke after reading this.

I sure hope they cook it.

Actually the dehydrate it, grind it into powder and add it to jello.

Now I really am going to puke. Why did you have to mention Jello there.