When I told people that I wanted to make blood sausage using my own blood, their nostrils flared as though they'd smelled something awful. Just about every person I spoke to said, "damn, that's gross."

Gross? To me, when a pig or a cow is slaughtered, that's gross. My own blood has many of the same nutrients—the iron, vitamins, and minerals—as the pig's blood that usually goes into blood sausage, but it only harms me, not any animals. I was interested in seeing what would happen during the process. I wanted to see how it felt, but also how other people reacted. Why is my idea considered disgusting, but doing the same thing with pigs' blood isn't?