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		orblivion on March 20, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Artificial meat: UK scientists growing 'bacon' in ... > The little I've seen from Jewish and Muslim sources suggests that they don't really see lab-grown as being any different from regular meat with regarding kashrut or halal food. What qualifies as a pig? What if it's a hybrid? What if it has only a little bit of pig DNA? Could be interesting times ahead!

naravara on March 20, 2019 | [–]

>Could be interesting times ahead!

Seriously. If you genetically modified a pig to not have cloven hooves does it suddenly become kosher?

Simon_says on March 21, 2019 | [–]

It's been interesting times for religious people for the last 400 years or so. Doesn't seem to faze them.

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