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Lab-grown meat can be halal and kosher (www.axios.com)
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Islamic scholars consulted by a leading producer of cultivated meat say that the newfangled protein — which is grown from animal cells and doesn't require animals to be slaughtered — can be halal, or permissible under Muslim law.

And the Jewish Orthodox Union this month certified a strain of lab-grown chicken as kosher for the first time, "marking a significant step forward for the food technology's acceptance under Jewish dietary law," as the Times of Israel put it.

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[–] fred@lemmy.ml 13 points 11 months ago (2 children)

What do these three glyphs signify in this particular sequence

[–] neokabuto@sh.itjust.works 7 points 11 months ago

Fetal bovine serum. It's used as a supplement for for cell cultures.

[–] agoseris@lemm.ee 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Some of the cows slaughtered for meat are pregnant. Fetal bovine serum comes from the blood extracted from these cow fetuses.

Since it is used to produce lab grown meat, it is not vegetarian

[–] wolf6152@mastodon.social 2 points 11 months ago

@agoseris @fred you’d think since it’s meat it’s not vegetarian.

[–] bitsplease@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Pretty sure it'd still be vegetarian, just not Vegan then right? At least how I generally have heard it defined, vegetarians are OK with eating food made from animal byproducts (though it's preferable to avoid) and only vegans refuse to consume anything with any animal byproducts

[–] Spzi@lemm.ee 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

For some vegetarians, it makes a difference wether an animal had to die in the process. It's one thing to continously harvest milk or eggs from an animal which otherwise lives on ~~happily~~. It's another thing to eat something which could only be obtained by slaughtering an animal.

In the same sense, many hard cheeses like Parmesan or Gran Padano aren't vegetarian either, because they use rennet.

[–] stopthatgirl7@kbin.social 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Isn’t the vast majority of cheese now made with bacterial rennet instead of calf rennet? I remember reading that something like 95% of cheese now was made with that instead.

[–] Spzi@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Would be nice to know, I'd like to read a source. On wiki, I got the impression the driving incentive is not to kill less calfs, but to produce more rennet, to ultimately produce more cheese. The German wiki quotes "Nur ca. 35 % der weltweiten Käseproduktion können mit Naturlab produziert werden.", roughly "Only about 35% of worldwide cheese production can be produced with rennet from animals". Technically still a vast majority.

[–] stopthatgirl7@kbin.social 2 points 11 months ago

It was from Wikipedia, and I was misremembering slightly - not 95% of all cheese, but of cheese made in the US. Which could be saying a lot about cheese in the US.