https://www.jta.org/2018/03/22/news-opinion/rabbi-says-meat-genetically-cloned-pig-eaten-jews-including-milk
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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 Ynet 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."
Oh those clever Jews, always finding creative ways to get around God's instructions.Quote:
In the interview ahead of a Bar-Ilan University symposium titled "Science and Halacha" featuring a talk by Cherlow, he advocated rabbinic approval of cloned meat "so that people would not starve, to prevent pollution, and to avoid the suffering of animals."
When the "cell of a pig is used and its genetic material is utilized in the production of food, the cell in fact loses its original identity and therefore cannot be defined as forbidden for consumption," Cherlow said. "It wouldn't even be meat, so you can consume it with dairy."
In 2013, Rabbi Menachem Genack, CEO of the Orthodox Union's kosher division, said that meat from a lab-grown hamburger could be consumed with dairy products, although halacha, religious Jewish law, forbids it in meat produced from a live animal.
