Eww!

[EspanolBot]

Does this count as cannibalism?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4918012.stm

[George]

This baby placenta eating thing is clearly for publicity.

[skittlebrau]

http://www.joblo.com/newsimages1/fansummer.jpg
"Save the afterbirth for us!"

[Kuje]

tastes like chicken.

[Nebuchanezzar]

I heard that spreading placenta on roses helps them grow.

[disco neon]

i personally dont think its for publicity. Even celebrities don't joke about or do anything like eating placenta's. I think the news papers just want some gossip so they put words in his mouth. He's an awsome actor - espicially in Mission impossible.

[Dr Zaius]

...And we're done with the frozen yogurt.

[mr. broom]

It's not as uncommon/publicity-stunty as you think, sez the Internet:

Then comes the practice of placentophagia, eating the placenta, is also practiced in some parts of the world. There are even meal like recipes for cooking placentas, including placenta stew, placenta lasagna, power drinks with blended placenta and others. Though some mothers have been reported to eat placenta raw.

There are many reasons listed for eating the placenta, including it helping stem postpartum depression and it supposedly helps to contract the uterus after the birth. We know that many animals eat their own placenta, including as a means to hide the scent from predators.

In our modern world this may seem barbaric and some have even said that this could spread HIV/AIDS or Hepatitis. While this is very true if people other than the mother consume the placenta, normally it is only the mother partaking of the placenta.

In Chinese Medicine, the placenta is known as a great life force and is highly respected in terms of its medicinal value. However, in this field it is not cook, but rather usually dried. To dry a placenta you would simply dehydrate it in the oven, then using a mortar and pestle grind it up. From there you can mix it with food or ingest it within capsules. I have actually known one mother who did this drying technique. It is my only personal experience with placentophagia.

[Adamm R)))]

Still, it's no more horrible than a Cruise film.

[DotheBartman]

http://www.penny-arcade.com/images/2005/20051017l.jpg


The article just seems like an excuse to waste more time on Holmes and Cruise though. It was funny when there were clips on the internet of Cruise electrocuting Oprah. Now I just wish I didn't have to hear about them all the time.

[EspanolBot]

He stole much needed publicity from Batman Begins. Him and his girlfriend.