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The question is. Did you Google "Soylent Green" or "long pig"?
Both basically take you to the same place though.
Again, I apologize if I offended.
One picture was enough.
No offense at all. Actually, I'm glad I have a residual capacity for shock. Some days I wonder.
Less about the faux-beef burger. It's grown from animals with hoofs that chew cud, and, well, I'm Xian with no ties, ancestral or otherwise, to Judaism and don't worry about all the Talmudic restrictions on slaughtering practices. Still, part of the problem with the patty made was the lack of fat and since they grew it from muscle cells it also lacked any blood whatsoever.
No life. As far as I'm concerned it's animal-based textured vegetable protein. I was curious about how the various Judaisms would handle it. Lubovitcher and Hasidim will say "no". Conservative ... probably say no. Liberal Judaism doesn't much care already. Heck, as an undergrad the irony wasn't lost on my friends that I was the one eating the matzoh and beef during Passover while they--mostly Jews--were having the nice ham and cheese on nice fluffy white.
No, what I was pondering was whether meat grown from pig cells would be Biblically clean. Grown from animals that don't do the cud-chewing thang, it nonetheless grew and, as it grew, lacked feet of any kind and no teeth or esophagus (much less the multiplicity of bovine "stomachs"
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Note that there's already the whole gelatin problem. Gelatin is so processed that you really can't tell what animal's bones and cartilage it was made from. So there's kosher gelatin (Royal used to be) but Jell-O isn't. There's not universal buy-in, though, to requiring that little koph-in-a-circle symbol on gelatin, esp. if it's baked in some other product.
