Engineered meat....

[Dr Mordrid]

http://www.livescience.com/technology/050707_lab_meat.html

Something tells me this won't be quite as satisfying as a prime piece of Angus

Dr. Mordrid

[Wombat]

So, 100% lean? Hmm.

[Lizzard[MPE]]

pretty soon we'll all be eating Nasa space food

[schmosef]

This stuff will never be Kosher.

[Helevitia]

For some reason, this reminded me of a song that my Brothers wife started singing one day. It's hard to relay the sound, but just emphasize any word that ends in "eat" or "eet"

When you beat your meat on the toilet seat and your hands get tired you can use your feet

I have no clue where she got that song but everytime she sang it, I laughed hysterically. You could say I L'dMAO

Oh, bakc to the subject. My stomach kind of turns when I think of engineered meat *shudders*

[Helevitia]

Hey! that can be my new sig

[Brian Ellis]

Well, I'm quite sure the rubbish they sell for ham here could almost be Kosher, as I don't think it's ever seen a pig They try to make us believe that a rectangular lump of tasteless, soaking wet, chemically imbibed, pink blotting paper is ham. Whoever heard of a pig with rectangular legs? I don't mean to offend you, Schmo, but one of the things I really do miss on this island is a decent ham. Whenever I go to Switzerland, I always bring back a whole bunch of good charcuterie, including fresh ham carved off the bone. I've had better ham than we can get here in a few Muslim countries!

Guess Cyprus must be a world leader at making artificial meat.

[Kurt]

This stuff will never be Kosher.

rofl

wanna bet?

[schmosef]

Well, I'm quite sure the rubbish they sell for ham here could almost be Kosher, as I don't think it's ever seen a pig They try to make us believe that a rectangular lump of tasteless, soaking wet, chemically imbibed, pink blotting paper is ham. Whoever heard of a pig with rectangular legs? I don't mean to offend you, Schmo, but one of the things I really do miss on this island is a decent ham. Whenever I go to Switzerland, I always bring back a whole bunch of good charcuterie, including fresh ham carved off the bone. I've had better ham than we can get here in a few Muslim countries!

Guess Cyprus must be a world leader at making artificial meat.

No offence taken. I was just making an observation. I don't keep kosher. But maybe it's not a bad time to start. This stuff could never be kosher because there are strict rules that require suitable animals to have split hooves and to chew their cud. The animal also has to be killed in a very particular way with a single cut to the carotid. I don't see how these could ever be considered kosher if they don't have hooves or mouths. And instead of cutting the carotid, you just "unplug" them.

[Fluff]

Meat for vegitarians.

But in reality, in a production line like this. The product would never any more alive / or conscious than a plant.

Spork sausages.
Sbeef burger.
Schicken any shape you want.

[schmosef]

I had a conversation with a mishgiach once. I asked him why chicken wasn't allow to be mixed with meat since there's no rule against poultry combined with dairy in the Torah. He said it was because poultry could be prepared in a manner that could confuse someone into thinking it was meat. And the rule was to avoid even the possibility of confusion. So then I asked him about tofu, which is considered Vegitarian and allowed to be combined with dairy but could be prepared to look just like meat. He said it was a complex issue but you'd never see a mock steak with a cream sauce in a kosher home. He said something like "the implied offense is to be avoided". According to what that Rabbi told me, this "stuff", which is essentially chemically grown meat, would never be considered suitable for a kosher diet because it implies meat too specifically, and that means someone eating it would assume things about it (how it was raised, killed, butchered) that were not true.

[Nowhere]

Uhmm...does the Rabbi oppose, i dunno, for example new chirurgical procesures that can allow a person paralised (or paralised in practice: can't move because of heart defect for example) from birth to walk/live normally for the first time? Because you know, the sight of such person living normally implies she was healthy form the beginning and this would cause that people would assume things about the healed person (how she/he was raised) that were not true

[Gurm]

Uhmm...does the Rabbi oppose, i dunno, for example new chirurgical procesures that can allow a person paralised (or paralised in practice: can't move because of heart defect for example) from birth to walk/live normally for the first time? Because you know, the sight of such person living normally implies she was healthy form the beginning and this would cause that people would assume things about the healed person (how she/he was raised) that were not true

You're confusing the issue. Kosher is a very complex topic. Many MANY Jews keep a very limited version of Kosher, or not at all, for this very reason.

[Nowhere]

Yep, complex it is... (and here pops the question...why?)

But the thing about assuming things (which I didn't know about) is...weird to me. So I wrote even weirder scenario (yeah, not with eating, I confess...)

[Gurm]

Yep, complex it is... (and here pops the question...why?)

But the thing about assuming things (which I didn't know about) is...weird to me. So I wrote even weirder scenario (yeah, not with eating, I confess...)

Exactly... NOT with eating. Kosher only governs eating.