> --- In [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>
>>
>> In a message dated 4/19/06 2:03:24 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>>
>> Man is the only land mammal that doesn't eat the placenta, whales and
>> dolphins don't either for some reason.
>>
>>
>>
>> Mammals eat the placenta for two basic reasons, 1 is to stimulate
> lactation
>> and nourish a mother who may not be in a position to hunt or graze
> for a
>> while and 2 it helps remove sent of newborn from the area which
> would attract
>> predators.
In Steve Briggs' book Mirror of Truth (http://pilgrimagetoindia.com/), the
otherwise vegetarian Indian family he's visiting makes a pudding of their
cow's placenta after it has given birth. So I presume it's an Indian
tradition. I don't remember whether or not Steve ate any before realizing
what it was.
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