Blogging the Omer Day 10: But how do you schecht it?
Week two, Day three
Tiferet of Gevurah
PETA is offering a 1 million Dollar reward to the first scientist to to produce and bring to market in vitro meat.
I give them full points for consistency. Of course, it doesn’t solve the problems of the use of resources to produce meat. It also raises all kinds of questions (and to be honest, although I’ve occasionally had a burger, the idea of meat produced by humans creeps me out especially knowing all the really awful stuff behind and alongside Genetically modified food- which currently is mostly herbiferous).
But of course, the really great questions have already been asked by Jewish Star Trek fans, who pondered the matter via the replicator: Could one eat a kosher cheeseburger? Who would be qualified to supervise the meat, since in theory there might still be animals around that people schechted? Would it be kosher to eat pork produced this way? How about human flesh? The questions are endless.
If it was liver, do you still have to broil it within an inch of destruction?
PETA: You have challenged us; now we challenge you to answer these question for us!
Proof PeTA cares more about animals than humans (other than themselves).
—B.BarNavi · April 30th, 2008 at 1:27 am
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—The Jew and the Carrot » Blog Archive » PETA’s Bizarre “Meat” Challenge · April 30th, 2008 at 3:57 pm
Re: “doesn’t solve the problems of the use of resources to produce meat”
It takes resources to produce anything, of course, but I’m guessing that in vitro meat wouldn’t take nearly as many resources to produce as conventional meat. That’d be a tall task! See http://goveg.com/environment-wastedResources.asp (or if that doesn’t work: http://tinyurl.com/4ww7kh).
—Michael Croland · May 1st, 2008 at 9:14 pm