Rabbi: Meat from cloned pig could be kosher for Jews to eat – with milk

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I must confess that I don’t quite know what to make of this.

A prominent Orthodox rabbi in Israel said that meat from a genetically cloned pig would be kosher for consumption by Jews — including when eaten with dairy products.

Rabbi Yuval Cherlow told the Ynet news site in an interview published Wednesday that cloned meat is not subject to the rules that apply to the consumption of regular meat.

Cherlow is quoted as saying that “cloned meat produced from a pig shall not be defined as prohibited for consumption – including with milk.”

In the interview, Cherlow of the Tzohar Rabbinical Organization appears to be talking about meat that is grown artificially in a laboratory from the cells of a pig, rather than meat produced from a live pig whose genetic material comes from a cell from which the pig was cloned. However, the article does not quote him as making the distinction.
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Being able to eat bacon may open your eyes to the Divinity of Christ…

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He only means test-tube meat isn’t meat.

I am thinking there will be other opinions on it, since things that have touched meat may be considered suitable only to contact meat foods and things that have touched trief foods are trief. It just depends.

Considering how different meat from sedentary animals is from active ones and effect of diet on flavor, etc, I wouldn’t even guess if test tube meat would seem better or worse.
 
I wouldn’t do it.

I’m totally against cloning. But from what I’ve heard about it, the cloned animal (doesn’t matter what kind it is) is just like the original. So if the original isn’t kosher, neither is the cloned version.
 
In this case, it does not appear that he is actually talking about a cloned animal (pig); just cloned and lab-grown meat.

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And where does that “cloned and lab grown meat” come from?
 
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I wouldn’t do it.

I’m totally against cloning. But from what I’ve heard about it, the cloned animal (doesn’t matter what kind it is) is just like the original. So if the original isn’t kosher, neither is the cloned version.
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Do you apply your opposition to cloning also to plants?
 
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And where does that “cloned and lab grown meat” come from?
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A laboratory. Scientists are already growing cloned animal tissues in laboratories, without having to cut them off from actual cloned animals.

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The question is whether it is judged to come from an animal. It isn’t a muscle, so it might be judged to be not meat. It still may be judged non-kosher.

I would think different rabbis will draw different conclusions. Who knows, though.
 
I don’t know what to make of it either, other than it makes me really glad I am not Jewish. This article alone could spark mass conversions to Christ.
 
If the cells were originally derived from a pig, wouldn’t the cells still be pig, even if grown artificially in a lab?
 
They take a sample of stem cells from livestock and use it to grow muscle tissue in a laboratory. It’s a highly efficient process since the stem cells only produce stem cells and muscle cells, and there’s no need to support a whole animal.
 
I think that there would be a risk of giving the appearance of eating non-kosher food.
For that reason alone, it’s a bad idea.

N.B. Turkey and milk products cannot be served together – because it could cause
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The Catholic Church will have to make a ruling on this, too: Is lab grown meat permissible on abstinence days?
 
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