- Q. Shalom Horav: I just read on the National Post that Cloned Meat is getting closer to being sold in Canada without any labels |. If that is true what should we do?
A. We once wrote in respect to cloned meat the following:
Dear Rabbeinu Shalit"a, 1. Can cloned meat be kosher? 2. Halachically, should producers inform customers that the meat is cloned?
A. Cloning is the process of generating a genetically identical copy of a cell or an organism. Cloning happens all the time in nature. In biomedical research, cloning is broadly defined to mean the duplication of any kind of biological material for scientific study, such as a piece of DNA or an Therapeutic cloning enables the cultivation of stem cells that are genetically identical to a patient. This approach, by avoiding risk of rejection by the immune system, has the potential to benefit many patients, including those affected by Alzheimer disease, diabetes, etc.See questions 1230, 1234, 4336, 2114, and others.10) Ask Vaera 8 10)
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