I can see planting a tree with the placenta. I would not eat it or make a teddy bear, though.
We're not gonna die. We can't die, Bendis. You know why? Because we are so very pretty. We are just too pretty for God to let us die.
Mal ,'Serenity'
Natter 66: Get Your Kicks.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Hil R. - Jul 22, 2010 9:58:55 am PDT #14023 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Dana - Jul 22, 2010 9:59:44 am PDT #14024 of 30001
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
OH MY GOD STOP TALKING ABOUT PLACENTA
Jars - Jul 22, 2010 10:00:55 am PDT #14025 of 30001
Yeah the one argument I've seen that keeps coming up re the placenta thing is that animals eat it after giving birth. Animals also eat their own shit, people. Faeces smoothie, anyone?
I used to be fairly laid back about the idea, but then the STFU Parents tumblr had lots of photos of people's placenta meals/crafts and all of a sudden I was very, very anti- the whole thing.
Calli - Jul 22, 2010 10:02:11 am PDT #14026 of 30001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
My parents planted trees for my sister and me, but I don't think placentas were involved. Just blue spruce. I don't hate the thought of burying a placenta--you can compost just about anything organic. But it seems like one more thing to keep track of for a new parent. What with feeding and diapering and juggling helpful (or "helpful") relatives, who wants to bother tracking down a shovel and a sapling?
Lee - Jul 22, 2010 10:02:52 am PDT #14027 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Points at what Dana said
msbelle - Jul 22, 2010 10:03:59 am PDT #14028 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
laughing out loud at the lot of you!
I found the missing clothes. Whew!
Trudy Booth - Jul 22, 2010 10:05:41 am PDT #14029 of 30001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
I don't get the skeeve, really. Why is a placenta nastier than any other piece of meat?
§ ita § - Jul 22, 2010 10:08:00 am PDT #14030 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Why is a placenta nastier than any other piece of meat?
Society already has relative skeeves set up for pieces of meat, and human meat? REALLY high on the skeeve meter, if you've noticed.
I am having Zankou's today. If I ever leave the office on time. Which is early.
Jesse - Jul 22, 2010 10:08:18 am PDT #14031 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I don't tend to eat any part of a human, and I'm not personally excited about eating any filter organ -- I haven't eaten liver, for example.
Sophia Brooks - Jul 22, 2010 10:08:34 am PDT #14032 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I really think I might have recoiled from a meat teddy bear as well.