101 (commercial) uses for placenta

Everyone's heard about people who eat the placenta after giving birth. Some have it made into capsules for easy, tasteless swallowing while others blend it into some kind of bloody smoothie (I've seen that on tv - I didn't just make it up).

I suppose others set it in ice cubes to cool a Bloody Mary, stirfry it with veggies or perhaps crumb it for a placenta schnitzel.

Gross.

When I was pregnant, I came across a website that offered the capsule making service, along with a gallery of other even more disturbing placenta-related products.

I'm not sure how many people pay for placenta finger paintings and decorative umbilical cord souvenirs. I can just imagine, Christmas time, placing a dried out umbilical cord in the shape of a star atop the tree. Ew.

Suddenly this Placenta Cream I spied on the shelf of a mainstream chemist seems far less radical.