Placenta Teddy Bears Are Pretty Disgusting
Posted by: Jessica Wakeman
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10:40AM, Thursday November 12th 2009
EW! So disgusting! Some kooky designer in London is turning afterbirth placentas into teddy bears. First, London-based Alex Green cures the placenta with salt to kill bacteria; then Green softens the organ with a mixture of eggs and tannins so it’ll take on the appearance of suede or leather. (Instead of, you know, a bloody organ that was chilling in your womb for nine months.) Green said he cuts up the placenta, sews it into a five-inch tall stuffed animal shape and fills the placenta teddy bear up with brown rice. He claims he wants to provoke “a debate about placentas and how we treat them,” noting that some people plant the placenta in the backyard and grow and tree, while in China, the placenta is somethings eaten for strength. Fair enough, but I, for one, think I’ll be more careful around friends who’ve just popped out a baby. [ABC News]
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rachel_leigh
wrote on November 12 2009 @ 10:47 am: [report]
WTH? That thing is going to give me nightmares.
Sofjna
wrote on November 12 2009 @ 10:53 am: [report]
Ew ew ew ew ew!!!! This was not the first thing I wanted to see when I pulled up this website. This has got some freaky Silence of the Lambs or Texas Chainsaw Massacre sh*t going on. Ew.
megly
wrote on November 12 2009 @ 11:02 am: [report]
I’ve seen many a placenta when I worked at a pathology lab, and I never even imagined they could look like that. Odd.
Melania
wrote on November 12 2009 @ 11:19 am: [report]
Most mammals eat them, maybe he should turn them into cookies.
Either way, i hope we or rather had hoped we evolved further than that. Likely less so if we are making them into teddy bears.
Just imagine the SHAME of showing your 14 year olds friends’ her placenta teddy!.....lol
Namaste
wrote on November 12 2009 @ 11:38 am: [report]
It’s amazing the things people think of. A placenta teddy?! Oh my… all it is missing is those googly eyes that can be glued on, and maybe a sweater made from real human hair. *Gag*