Delicious, but is it Kosher?
However, this cultured meat is still far from vegan.
To do this, it needs a cheap, plentiful alternative to FBS.
Eat Just
The aim of the CPIs project is to find growth media based on the by-products of the agricultural industry.
Is It Kosher?
InElementary Season 5, Episode 8, Sherlock and Joan investigate a murder linked to lab-grown meat.
Spoiler: the motive has to do with the classification of lab meat.
Sherlock consults with Muslim and Jewish leaders.
That would mean big businesshence the murder.
Even with a non-animal growth medium, the original meat cells that start the culture are animals.
This would, it seems, rule out lab-grown pork.
For vegans, the question is simpler, as it involves only personal ethics, and not religious law.
Then again, maybe taste doesnt come into it.
Plenty of people are happy to eat hot dogs and chicken nuggets, after all.
