# Don’t waste that perfectly good fetus! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 6, 2019, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/don-t-waste-that-perfectly-good-fetus/829060 "2019-02-06T13:46:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Baka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/848f3c/32.png) [@Baka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baka)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2019, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/don-t-waste-that-perfectly-good-fetus/829060/41 "2019-02-06T15:58:18Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > No. Next question. > > While we’re waiting, a little [mood music for the thread](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GbyUzKsuZU). You’re welcome! Thank you The Kabong for finally just answering my damn question! It is OK to eat fetuses, as I expected. I will procure and prepare. You are invited kind person. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2019, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/don-t-waste-that-perfectly-good-fetus/829060/42 "2019-02-06T16:00:02Z")
> [@Baka](#): > > The thread on 3rd term abortions got me thinking. You could potentially be pulling out a 3-7 pound non-person fetus of meat. > > Any pro choice folks have an issue with me trying some fresh, tender, recently aborted fetus? > > We could help feed the poor. Or open hip niche butcheries in gentrified areas in cities. > > So, may I eat your fetus? Please? > > If not, why not? That “OMG! When he puts it _that_ way, I feel absolute shame in how I supported the murder of preborn babbies!!!” reaction you’re fishing for? Ain’t gonna happen. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2019, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/don-t-waste-that-perfectly-good-fetus/829060/43 "2019-02-06T16:00:06Z")
> [@Baka](#): > > > [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > > > Why are you asking others for their fetuses? Make, abort and consume your own. Or at least ask someone local to you for theirs. Most of us are thousands of miles from you. The shipping cost is going to make prime Kobe beef or bluefin tuna look like a bargain. > > I’ve already adopted two potential aborted fetuses and I don’t intend to eat them! Well, why not eat them? It would cost you less than raising them to adulthood. ---
**Author:** ![Baka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/848f3c/32.png) [@Baka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baka)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2019, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/don-t-waste-that-perfectly-good-fetus/829060/44 "2019-02-06T16:02:00Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > Well, why not eat them? It would cost you less than raising them to adulthood. Believe me. I’ve thought about it with the youngest one. ---
**Author:** ![Baka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/848f3c/32.png) [@Baka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baka)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2019, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/don-t-waste-that-perfectly-good-fetus/829060/45 "2019-02-06T16:04:20Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > That “OMG! When he puts it _that_ way, I feel absolute shame in how I supported the murder of preborn babbies!!!” reaction you’re fishing for? > > Ain’t gonna happen. I never said anything about babies. Freak. Only fetuses. I am literally wondering how you feel about me eating a fetus. I’m looking for consistency in your answer. I’m looking for everyone to be like El Kabong and say it’s ok because it should be ok! ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2019, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/don-t-waste-that-perfectly-good-fetus/829060/46 "2019-02-06T16:14:35Z")
OK, I say it’s OK, but it’s on you to find the fetuses. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2019, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/don-t-waste-that-perfectly-good-fetus/829060/47 "2019-02-06T16:19:28Z")
> [@Baka](#): > > I never said anything about babies. Freak. Only fetuses. > > I am literally wondering how you feel about me eating a fetus. I’m looking for consistency in your answer. I’m looking for everyone to be like El Kabong and say it’s ok because it should be ok! Actually, I was trying to give you the benefit of the doubt in thinking that you were trying to be clever…but it seems you were being stupid all along. My apologies for the mistaken assumption. ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2019, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/don-t-waste-that-perfectly-good-fetus/829060/48 "2019-02-06T16:22:20Z")
> [@Baka](#): > > I never said anything about babies. Freak. Only fetuses. > > I am literally wondering how you feel about me eating a fetus. I’m looking for consistency in your answer. I’m looking for everyone to be like El Kabong and say it’s ok because it should be ok! You could always shove the fetus up your ass and then go to a party. In the middle of conversation scream HOLY SHIT MY WATER BROKE and then drop your trousers and shit out a wee baby. There are plenty of uses for fetuses; no need to just gobble them up. ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2019, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/don-t-waste-that-perfectly-good-fetus/829060/49 "2019-02-06T16:43:24Z")
> [@Cheesesteak](#): > > I’m very thankful, because here I can say that you’re now on my ignore list. Fastest add ever. ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_Kumquat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4491bb/32.png) [@Gary\_Kumquat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Kumquat)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2019, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/don-t-waste-that-perfectly-good-fetus/829060/50 "2019-02-06T16:44:57Z")
Never really understood why trolls so often feel that disingenuity is a good strategy. ---
**Author:** ![Hamlet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hamlet/32/2818_2.png) [@Hamlet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamlet)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2019, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/don-t-waste-that-perfectly-good-fetus/829060/51 "2019-02-06T16:49:17Z")
**Baka** , as a person who holds a pro-life stance, can I sincerely ask you to fuck off and go back under whatever idiotic rock you crawled out from under? You’re not only making yourself look like a complete and utter idiot, but you’re also making anyone holding a pro-life view look dumber. So please stop. ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2019, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/don-t-waste-that-perfectly-good-fetus/829060/52 "2019-02-06T16:52:56Z")
Too stupid to accept the consistent answers being given in the thread, so ok… On a more interesting note, some vegetarians are only vegetarian for ethical reasons and would consider cloned meat ok to consume. I’m ok with somebody eating the clone of a person (assuming that clone had never been conscious, i.e. a human being). Except maybe the brains - those nasty prions could pose an unacceptable health risk. In terms of fetuses, chicken is a whole lot cheaper and easier to obtain, transport, and produce, especially if the concern is feeding starving people, so I’m trying to find the intelligent reason why this thought experiment doesn’t fail immediately on economic grounds. This is also why conspiracy theories about McDonald’s or Taco Bell or whoever putting horse meat in their food is bunk - beef is vastly cheaper and easier to obtain so why go with the more expensive and more difficult option? Also, Swift already did this whole ‘modest proposal’ thing a couple hundred years ago and did an immeasurably better job of it. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2019, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/don-t-waste-that-perfectly-good-fetus/829060/53 "2019-02-06T16:53:46Z")
Oh, gosh. We’re so shocked you want to eat late-term fetuses. I’m clutching my pearls in consternation and my butler has to fan me. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2019, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/don-t-waste-that-perfectly-good-fetus/829060/54 "2019-02-06T17:16:28Z")
No need to eat fetuses, when you can get even better health benefits from [consuming placentas](http://sciencemag.org/news/2017/12/moms-should-you-eat-your-placentas?r3f_986=https://www.google.com/). Lots of delicious recipes [here](http://amazon.com/25-Placenta-Recipes-Delicious-placenta-ebook/dp/B00BN2JP78), guaranteed to turn that clammy, blood-soaked sponge of an organ into a culinary delight. And don’t forget to try [placenta smoothies](https://www.amazon.com/DIY-Placenta-Edibles-Smoothies-Chocolate-ebook/dp/B00JUG8U0W/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_sims?ie=UTF8) ---
**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2019, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/don-t-waste-that-perfectly-good-fetus/829060/55 "2019-02-06T17:47:54Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > No. Next question. > > While we’re waiting, a little [mood music for the thread](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GbyUzKsuZU). You’re welcome! Thank you!! Literally been twenty years since I last spun a Foetus track. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2019, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/don-t-waste-that-perfectly-good-fetus/829060/56 "2019-02-06T18:06:13Z")
I have no intrinsic moral compulsions against cannibalism, but I’m leery of shifting public policy to make it legal. ---
**Author:** ![kanicbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f8ce5/32.png) [@kanicbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kanicbird)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2019, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/don-t-waste-that-perfectly-good-fetus/829060/57 "2019-02-06T18:13:03Z")
To me abortion is killing a person, however that person has not entered the world yet, and is subject to the woman’s free will (and to God) and the world has no moral jurisdiction on this person yet (meaning until born). As such eating a removed and dead fetus, that would be the same as eating a amputated limb, dead child, or dead person for that matter and is within the jurisdiction of this world. ---
**Author:** ![Trion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@Trion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trion)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2019, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/don-t-waste-that-perfectly-good-fetus/829060/58 "2019-02-06T18:33:26Z")
Nice to see there’s still someone trying to be King Edgelord. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2019, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/don-t-waste-that-perfectly-good-fetus/829060/59 "2019-02-06T18:35:16Z")
Damn. This one has a hole in it. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2019, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/don-t-waste-that-perfectly-good-fetus/829060/60 "2019-02-06T18:42:41Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > No need to eat fetuses, when you can get even better health benefits from [consuming placentas](http://sciencemag.org/news/2017/12/moms-should-you-eat-your-placentas?r3f_986=https://www.google.com/). > > Lots of delicious recipes [here](http://amazon.com/25-Placenta-Recipes-Delicious-placenta-ebook/dp/B00BN2JP78), guaranteed to turn that clammy, blood-soaked sponge of an organ into a culinary delight. And don’t forget to try [placenta smoothies](https://www.amazon.com/DIY-Placenta-Edibles-Smoothies-Chocolate-ebook/dp/B00JUG8U0W/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_sims?ie=UTF8) And for nights when you just don’t feel like making a fancy meal, remember there’s Placenta Helper! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/don-t-waste-that-perfectly-good-fetus/829060.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/don-t-waste-that-perfectly-good-fetus/829060.md?page=4)