Thursday, January 28, 2010
Is Lab-Grown Meat Kosher
When I first read about lab-grown meat, the first question that popped into my head was, “Is that kosher?” It’s not that I’m Jewish, it’s that the idea of being told what you can and can’t eat by God kind of fascinates me. In college, I had a Jewish friend who worked at a barbeque restaurant, and excused himself for handling pork and chicken all day by saying that it was okay because he wore gloves and “didn’t eat much.” To solve the issue of lab-grown meat’s kosher status once and for all, io9 went to Rabbi Arnold Bienstock of Congregation Shaarey Tefilla in Carmel, Indiana, who answered the question with a resounding “maybe.”
Actually, his answer was this: “The way any religious issue comes down, in the Jewish community, is the more traditional, pious Orthodox Jews have a hard time accepting change, the Reform embrace it, and the Conservatives fight about it.” He believes Reform and some Conservative Jews would accept it, and that Orthodox and more traditional Conservative Jews would reject it in the same way they reject non-kosher gelatin and non-kosher cheeses.
http://www.popfi.com/2010/01/28/is-lab-grown-meat-kosher/
Comments:
the questioner is igmnorant .. ok
the rabbi is ignorant .. what a shande
the gemarah and its meforshim debate the status of a golem & of an animal that was sent from shamayim.. not created in the usual human manner
such amharatzus !!
the rabbi is ignorant .. what a shande
the gemarah and its meforshim debate the status of a golem & of an animal that was sent from shamayim.. not created in the usual human manner
such amharatzus !!
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: January 28, 2010 6:28 PM
: January 28, 2010 6:28 PM
If you read the article from i09, you will find that "Rabbi" Bienstock is a Conservative Rabbi. I commented on their website that the article, although entertaining, should have contained views from all three groups, not just the view of all three from a single source.
I asked a few orthodox rabbis once if food that has recombinant genes in it is kosher. These days, that can range from combining genes from various types of corn or wheat, to actualyl inserting firefly genes.
I was uniformly told that it was kosher, as long as the main food was kosher.
I still don't understand it.
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I was uniformly told that it was kosher, as long as the main food was kosher.
I still don't understand it.
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: January 30, 2010 6:04 PM
