Posted on 10/03/2021 5:00:35 AM PDT by mylife
JTA — Impossible Foods, the plant-based meat company, is releasing a long-awaited new product — but unlike the wildly popular Impossible Burger, it won’t be certified kosher.
The largest and most influential certifier of kosher products in the world has declined to endorse Impossible Pork, even though nothing about its ingredients or preparation conflicts with Jewish dietary laws.
“The Impossible Pork, we didn’t give an ‘OU’ to it, not because it wasn’t kosher per se,” said Rabbi Menachem Genack, the CEO of the Orthodox Union’s kosher division. “It may indeed be completely in terms of its ingredients: If it’s completely plant-derived, it’s kosher. Just in terms of sensitivities to the consumer … it didn’t get it.”
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It is also a Biblical preference....
Not sure exactly how to phrase it....
Like a Christian not putting a stumbling block in front of someone who may be a weaker Christian......
Makes sense. A lot of kosher rules are about avoiding confusion and making things easier. Like pigs aren’t kosher because they eat poo, but cloven hooved animals aren’t kosher because once they’ve been slaughtered and skinned how do you really tell the difference between a pig and a goat (which don’t eat poo and probably would otherwise be kosher). Same as the meat and dairy dishes. The real kosher rule is you can’t have meat with the milk of its mother. But how do you pull that off in a complex world where you’re not always sure where your meat and diary came from? Separate plates. How do you tell the difference between fake pork and real pork? Way easier to just declare fake pork not kosher.
They will probably outlaw gardens next. Wait a minute I think I read where someone had to go to court to keep a garden on their property.
It Israel they call it “white meat.”
I should have been clearer. In Israel they call pork “white meat,” so the challenge remains.
How about: “It is what it’s not,” or “It’s not what it is,” or “It is what it is.”
I am talking about the odd aspects, like no dairy with poultry.
...can’t have chicken with dairy, even though it should only apply to mammalian meat.
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Do ultra-orthodox refuse pickled herring in sour cream?
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