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.

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?

Points at what Dana said

laughing out loud at the lot of you!

I found the missing clothes. Whew!

I don't get the skeeve, really. Why is a placenta nastier than any other piece of meat?

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.

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.

I really think I might have recoiled from a meat teddy bear as well.

Okay, people can stop saying meat too.

Society already has relative skeeves set up for pieces of meat, and human meat? REALLY high on the skeeve meter, if you've noticed.

Sure, meat from a dead human. But no humans died to make this meat. This is human-friendly meat.

And, since generally its the mother eating it herself, is it really canibalism? I mean, nail biting is nasty, but its not canibalism.