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A strange story with its toes in both the culinary and medical worlds swept its way online in June 2018, to the point that the author was interviewed by media outlets. We were skeptical, but at least one of the key points tracks with medical reality. The story originated with an anonymous post on a Reddit forum: The unidentified man included a link to graphic photographs of the injury, as well as the process of the amputated link as it was prepared and served: He was described by Vice as a 38-year-old man. When asked how he was able to retain custody of his foot, he said: While the idea of retaining an amputated limb (let alone cooking it) is offbeat, medical professionals have said that it is not unheard of. This is not common practice in our facility, said Janet Cortez, the trauma program manager at the University of Utah Hospital: George Annas, director of the the Center for Health Law, Ethics & Human Rights at the Boston University School of Medicine, said that the only legitimate reason for health officials to intervene against an amputation patient's request to keep their limb would be concern over a virus or bacteria in its tissue. The general rule is you have custody of it it, you are considered the owner of your body parts as long as they're inside of you, he told PBS in January 2017. Once it's taken out, we have some reasonable expectation about what's going to be done with it. There are, however, some restrictions: Georgia, Louisiana, and Missouri have laws banning private ownership of body parts. The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act also forbids private trade of Native American remains. As for the Reddit user's ability to cook his erstwhile foot, he said that a friend's partner prepared it, and added a copy of the recipe. He said of the experience: We were unable to fact-check whether the anonymous user's account of eating his limb was legitimate, but it is — at the very least — plausible.
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