Can Lab-Grown Meat Be Kosher?
October 8, 2018
Back when the first laboratory-grown hamburger was introduced—costing roughly $335,000—two scholars of emerging technologies argued in Issues that it wasn’t too early to start discussing the social, cultural, environmental, and economic implications of this new development. Among the latest discussions, a rabbi with the Orthodox Union is considering whether “clean meat” grown from animal cells would be kosher, which would mean, among many other things, that observant Jews could top those burgers with a slice of cheese