Omelet wrote:

> In article >,
> MellieSue > wrote:
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>>I couldn't resist sharing this article I read about people who eatplacenta.
>>I'm so curious to see what anyone else thinks before I givemy opinion.
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>>'Eat Your Placenta Alone' (http://tinyurl.com/mfw6s4)
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>>Do you know anyone who has eaten placenta?-- MellieSue
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> I've not known anyone personally, but this is not the first I've heard
> of it. I've actually disgust this very subject with some of the OB
> nurses at work...
>
> Placenta shakes seem to be the most common.
>
> I'd most likely not be able to stomach it, but watching past litters of
> kittens be born, female cats never hesitated. Dogs are not quite as
> smart about it it seems...

I've never seen a dog hesitate, but in a bitch with a less than perfect
scissors bite (overbite or undershot jaw) you have to keep an eye on
them when they try to bite off the umbilical cord. If it doesn't come
away clean, you don't want them pulling and tugging at it and causing an
umbilical hernia.

When I took over cleaning up all the various old "special purpose fund"
accounts at the hospital where I used to work I came across one with a
several hundred dollar balance that was designated "placenta fund".
Some digging around and research revealed that the balance was the
proceeds from the sales of human placentas to a shampoo company back in
the '70s.