Mary Roach Quote
Unlike filets and stewing meats, organs look like what they are: body parts. That’s another reason we resist them. Organs, says Rozin, remind us of what we have in common with animals. In the same way a corpse spawns thoughts of mortality, tongues and tripe send an unwelcome message: you too are an organism, a chewing, digesting sack of guts.
Mary Roach
Unlike filets and stewing meats, organs look like what they are: body parts. That’s another reason we resist them. Organs, says Rozin, remind us of what we have in common with animals. In the same way a corpse spawns thoughts of mortality, tongues and tripe send an unwelcome message: you too are an organism, a chewing, digesting sack of guts.
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Mary Roach (born March 20, 1959) is an American author specializing in popular science and humor. She has published seven New York Times bestsellers: Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (2003), Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife (2005), Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex (2008), Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void (2010), Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal (2013), Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War (2016), and Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law (2021).