JERUSALEM, Jan 19 (Reuters) — Israel’s chief rabbi has given a kosher stamp of approval this week to a company looking to sell steak grown from cow cells — while effectively taking the animal itself out of the equation.
Cultivated meat, grown from animal cells in a lab or manufacturing plant, has been getting a lot of attention as a way to sidestep the environmental toll of the meat industry and address concerns over animal welfare.
This method, however, has raised questions over religious restrictions, like kashrut in Judaism or Islam’s halal.
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