[Avodah] Synthetic Meat - Responding to Questoins

[Lisa Liel]

On 8/5/2013 9:08 PM, Zev Sero wrote:
> On 5/08/2013 8:54 PM, Nachum Binyamin Klafter, MD wrote:
>>                             In the case of synthetic meat there is 
>> actually ZERO substance from any animal.  It's like a plant whose 
>> roots are growing in an artificial medium, which is now growing 
>> muscle tissue.  It's not an animal and has never been connected to an 
>> animal.

> Perhaps a better comparison is to the law that gidulei terumah are assur,
> but gidulei gidulim are mutar, because there is nothing of the original
> terumah's substance in the second generation, let alone in subsequent ones.

> In our case, by the time it gets to market it will surely be many
> generations removed from the original animals.

Lav davka.  It may be that an infusion of fresh original cells will be 
required periodically.  It hasn't been proven that even if it's possible 
to culture meat like this, that it's possible to do so generations removed.

Lisa