Time Writer Makes Fun Of Wife For Eating Her Placenta
Posted by Cole Gamble at 10:14 AM on July 9, 2009
If you’re a reader of this blog, you’re likely familiar with placentophagy…you know, the art of placenta consumption. Apparently the practice is brand new to Time writer Joel Stein who spent an entire article mocking his wife for to consume her own placenta for its many benefits.
“when Cassandra told me that for $US275, a woman would come to our house, cook Cassandra’s placenta, freeze-dry it and turn it into capsules to help ward off postpartum depression and increase milk supply, I said, “$275 is a bargain compared with the $US20,000 I’ll have to spend to tear out our kitchen immediately afterward.”
Joel is clearly not impressed. To be fair, many of us find the whole “Placenta: it’s the other white meat” a tad bizarre, stomach-churning, etc. And, yeah, Stein gets a few funny lines in.
However; some readers might take umbrage to certain bon mots like,
“when Cassandra’s looks fade in her 50s, there’s no way I’m putting up with this crap.”
Har Har?
What do you think? Is placentophagy fair game for full-press mockery or did this guy just make a laughing stock of his wife in a major new publication?
Oh and here is a bizarre video entitled “Placenta.” Please to enjoy.
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