[Avodah] Synthetic Meat

[Lisa Liel]

On 8/6/2013 7:03 AM, Joe Slater wrote:
> My understanding is that this "meat" at present is grown in material 
> extracted from calves, so it's almost certainly  fleishig (and 
> probably treif)....

> My reasoning is that this is unlike yoghurt and so forth, where the 
> substance consumed is predominantly a kosher one that has been 
> transformed by the action of an additive (e.g., bacteria with a treif 
> origin). In this case there is no additive as such: the original cells 
> replicate...

Whereas I don't think cells exist, halakhically. If you can't see it
with the naked eye, it's halakhically irrelevant.

Lisa