<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><p style="font-family:Georgia;line-height:20px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:20px;padding-right:198px;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Technological advances are bringing us to ask a pressing question: Does Judaism consider meat created in a laboratory to be kosher? Does Jewish law even consider it to be meat?The question takes on particular significance now, during the nine days, the traditional period of mourning that precedes Tisha B'Av when observant Jews abstain from meat. (Well, theoretical significance, at least – the world's first lab-grown hamburger, created in 2013, <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/jewish-world-news/1.540495" style="color:rgb(0,153,255);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">cost a cool $325,000 </a>and it's not exactly available at your neighborhood grocery store yet.)Some kashrut experts are ready to rule the burger kosher, and not only that, parve, reported <a href="http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-4683030,00.html" style="color:rgb(0,153,255);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Ynet reporter Koby Nachshoni </a>– meaning observant Jews, who won't eat milk and meat together, can eat their test-tube burger topped with cheese. Furthermore, the halachic authorities with whom Nachshon consulted even said this would apply to test-tube pork – so make that a bacon cheeseburger.But, no surprise here, not everyone agrees about that.<a href="http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/2293219/jewish/Is-the-Lab-Created-Burger-Kosher.htm" style="color:rgb(0,153,255);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Chabad addressed the issue</a>, too, noting that there are precedents for test-tube meat in the ancient Jewish sources. </p><p style="font-family:Georgia;line-height:20px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:20px;padding-right:198px;color:rgb(0,0,0)">see</p><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:20px;padding-right:198px"><font color="#000000" face="Georgia"><span style="line-height:20px"><a href="http://www.haaretz.com/life/food-wine/1.667580" target="_blank">http://www.haaretz.com/life/food-wine/1.667580</a></span></font><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br></font></span></p><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div>-- <br><div><div dir="ltr"><font color="#000099" face="'comic sans ms', sans-serif">Eli Turkel</font></div></div>
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