Q&A: What do you think about meat grown in a lab?
What do you think about meat grown in a lab?
Question
Today it was reported that there are already regulatory approvals to sell this kind of meat.
It seems to me that the growth process starts from a single cell or a few cells from a certain area of the body, and multiplies them artificially in a lab.
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Answer
I don’t have a position on this at the moment. One would need to understand the production process and think it through. With meat synthesized entirely from molecules, it is clear that there are no issues of meat and milk, non-kosher status due to injury or defect, and the like. With something that begins from cells taken from original meat, that requires discussion.
As for Shehecheyanu: you recite it over anything that makes you happy. That’s certainly no less fitting than a new seasonal fruit.
Discussion on Answer
As far as I know, the percentage of those-who-stopped-eating-meat (aka vegetarians) among the ‘righteous’ is lower than the Dead Sea
Maybe that’s the plain meaning of “In the future to come, the righteous are destined to eat from the flesh of the Leviathan’s skin…”