Growing Meat (OT) was: New poll for - Kevin's post

[Guest guest]

Thanks Gina.

 

I'm a budding [pun intended] horticulturist. Jointly conducting a

plant tissue culture workshop this weekend at the local college.

 

Okay on the meat question. I don't mean to be too verbose on this

topic, I am just trying to nail down my understanding of

vegetarianism. So, even if the meat could be produced in-vitro or buy

some other process that caused no death or suffering to a sentient

beast, it is still NOT kosher for a vegetarian? So is it the

biochemical nature of the animal protein that is offensive to

vegetarians, or the fact that an animal was sacrificed? Or both?

 

Please be patient with my sophomoric questions as I try to get up to

speed in my vegetarian quest.

 

Thanks,

 

Kevin

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, Gina <webdyke> wrote:

> Well....technically it would still be meat, since, well, you had to

get the

> cells from somewhere...

>

 

> Just so you know, I'm a biochemist...

>

> Gina

[Guest guest]

In the native belief system, everything has a spirit. I personally could not eat

a part of an animal that was made through in vitro, this is just merely another

show of greed, the need to create a piece of animal with spirit in the disguise

of not being alive to justify to ones self the " need " to eat meat. It is the

same to me as using the excuse that it is unhealthy to not eat meat. Merely a

quick and easy thing to believe just to make ones concience remain quiet.

 

--- " feline_rancher " <feline_rancher wrote:

Thanks Gina.

 

I'm a budding [pun intended] horticulturist. Jointly conducting a

plant tissue culture workshop this weekend at the local college.

 

Okay on the meat question. I don't mean to be too verbose on this

topic, I am just trying to nail down my understanding of

vegetarianism. So, even if the meat could be produced in-vitro or buy

some other process that caused no death or suffering to a sentient

beast, it is still NOT kosher for a vegetarian? So is it the

biochemical nature of the animal protein that is offensive to

vegetarians, or the fact that an animal was sacrificed? Or both?

 

Please be patient with my sophomoric questions as I try to get up to

speed in my vegetarian quest.

 

Thanks,

 

Kevin

**********

 

, Gina <webdyke> wrote:

> Well....technically it would still be meat, since, well, you had to

get the

> cells from somewhere...

>

 

> Just so you know, I'm a biochemist...

>

> Gina