[Avodah] Kashrut of Cloning

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From: "Michael Makovi" _mikewinddale at gmail.com_ 
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>>I haven't read the literature on this issue, but I could see  how one
could hold that d'oraita, a cloned animal would be considered not  a
real creature, having not come from a womb, and thus not liable  for
schechting.<<

>>>>>
As several others have pointed out, "cloning" does NOT mean that the  animal 
is grown in a test tube.  So far it is not possible to grow an  animal without 
using a womb. "Cloning" means that the genetic material to form  the new 
animal is taken from the nucleus of an existing animal and results in a  new 
animal that is a genetic copy -- an identical twin -- to the animal from  which its 
DNA was taken.

 


IVF which is sometimes loosely called "test tube babies" does not mean that  
these babies live in a test tube for nine months.  It means an egg is  
fertilized in a test tube -- actually a petri dish -- and then implanted in the  
mother at about the sixteen-cell stage.  Size of the period at the end of  this 
sentence.  Also these babies are not clones, although some scientists  are 
apparently working on cloning humans (which still does not mean they would  grow 
outside a womb, but that the daughter would be an identical twin to her  mother).
 
When Mother Nature splits a fertilized egg and makes two identical people  
aka twins, Mother Nature herself is cloning people.  But both of them have  to 
grow in a womb to survive.




--Toby  Katz
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