It may be the next generational move to feeding the world, but does it fit religiously?
The global cultured, artificially produced meat market may be set to soar amid greater environment-friendly government policies, investment and the growth in green consumerism, but questions remain if this novel food can be recognised as halal.
Cultured meat (also known as laboratorial-grown or cultivated meat) is typically produced by harvesting cells from a living animal and cultivating them outside the animal’s body using tissue engineering and cellular agriculture to form cuts of meat. Therein lies the rub in halal terms – as permissible, or halal, meat should be derived from slaughtering a healthy animal through a cut to the jugular vein, carotid artery and windpipe followed by all the blood being drained from the carcass.
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Kathryn Wortley