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"Bodies" Gift Shop Features Edible Organs
By Burt Safer | Dealer staff writer    Fri, Feb 1, 2008
 

bodiesgiftshopCINCINNATi - The gift shop at the Museum Center for "Bodies - The Exhibition" is causing almost as much controversy as the exhibit itself.  Rather than merely selling "The Visible Man" and "The Visible Woman", the gift shop also features real brains, intestines, kidneys, testicles, hearts, stomachs, and livers.

"We decided we would give each attendee the opportunity to bring home part of an actual dead body," said Roy Glover, organizer of the exhibit,  "What better way to continue this whimsical lesson in anatomy, than buying and eating some anatomy yourself?"

"We also gift wrap," Glover added. 

Glover's unconventional gift shop idea has backfired with one anonymous Cincinnati school principal.  "Many of the organs available at the gift shop are eaten daily in our school cafeteria," he said, "Since our students have this educational experience in biology every day, I see no reason for our school to attend the exhibit."

Protests are planned for this weekend, since the anonymous dead bodies featured in the gift shop were obtained without the signed consent of the deceased.

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