Cultured Meat and Noachian Law

[crossfire]

Does eating cultured (lab grown) meat constitute breaking the Noachian Law against eating flesh torn from a living animal? The flesh would have to be alive in order for it to be cultured.

 

[Harel13]

Related: Is cultured meat Kosher?

 

[dybmh]

I look at it like this. A Noachide is not expected to deeply probe the Torah for instructions on how to live. Therefore the practical application of the Noahide law against eating flesh from a living animal should be based on a simple direct rendering of the verse it's based on, Genesis 9:4. Therfore I would expect cultured meat to be OK for a Noahide.

 

[crossfire]

I look at it like this. A Noachide is not expected to deeply probe the Torah for instructions on how to live. Therefore the practical application of the Noahide law against eating flesh from a living animal should be based on a simple direct rendering of the verse it's based on, Genesis 9:4. Therfore I would expect cultured meat to be OK for a Noahide.

The life (blood) must be returned to the earth--poured out on the ground, which means it can't be exploited for food, no?
There is something I find deeply disturbing on an unconscious level about eating cultured meat, which is why I ask.

(I have no problem with non-food uses of cultured cells, such as for tissue replacement, however.)

 

[dybmh]

The life (blood) must be returned to the earth--poured out on the ground, which means it can't be exploited for food, no?

I think the rules regarding returning the blood to the earth comes later, so they wouldn't apply to Noahides.

There is something I find deeply disturbing on an unconscious level about eating cultured meat, which is why I ask.

It's a good question; I hope I've helped some with it.