If you thought lab grown chicken in the restaurant was exciting, lab grown rib eye steak should wet your palette even more!
Aleph Farms, based in Rehovot, Israel, is producing lab grown steaks - thick and juicy - from cells taken from a cheek swab from a cow. They say that it has all the flavor and texture of the real thing.
It looks good in the picture, but they say it isnt quite ready for commercial production yet.
Interestingly they say that the Vegan Society has determined that this will not be considered as vegan because of the cells taken from the cows. I wonder if that will have any effect on poskim making the determination of the status of meaty or pareve for this type of lab produced meat.
cells were taken via swabs from two cows - Alberto and Gertrude. All steaks being produced by Aeph as of right now are from those two cows. I do hope that Gertrude was not the mother of Alberto. Someone eating two steaks in one day might then have the potential problem of eating from a cow and her child which is a prohibition.
sources: Daily Mail and TOI
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A correction:
ReplyDeleteThere is no prohibition eating from a cow and her child on the same day - only in slaughtering them.
A problem there could be with this kind of meat would be Ever Min HaHai - eating meat of a living animal. If the cheek swabs were taken from living cows and are considered to still be tissue of a living animal, that could make all the cultured meat forbidden.
I think the eiver min hachai issue is the main point of contention in the machlokes about this type of meat. Personally I think the poskim dont have enough clarity on the issue yet, due to the developing technologies, to really be able to make a solid determination.
DeleteR Asher Weiss says it's meat.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I120UNiPUK0
Rav Asher Weiss -In Conversation with the Gush Family
KT
Haha. Tell me how the torah, germara, shulachan aruch or any other established halachik source could ever be a relevant reference for this modern super science scenario. It is completely disconnected from any context or reality that existed when these texts were written. No application, no relevance.
ReplyDeleteIncorrect.
DeleteOne of the results of studying Halacha is to see the amazing relevance of concepts discussed centuries ago to modern situations. It's no surprise at all.
Which us why R' Weiss says we really need a Rashba in our generation
DeleteKT
And until we get a modern Rashba let's just say that everything's forbidden. Irrelevant.
DeleteAnon @2:14 pm is correct. Besides being revolting, why is Israel the first to fall into for the nwo playbook (right out of the shoah) because that's what they're planning, to make food shortages so that they can manufacture phony foods in labs and probably to depopulate.
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To solve ever min hachai problems (and a lot of other ones), get the swab from a ben pekuah.
ReplyDeleteExcellent!
DeleteAvailable here: http://www.holykosher.com/
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