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Scientists are currently cultivating a marine plant that's packed with more nutrients than the trendy green superfood kale. And it naturally tastes like bacon.
Bacon-flavored crackers. Bacon-flavored salad dressing. These are just two of the savory treats that have been created so far using the domesticated strain of dulse (Palmaria palmata), a kind of red algae, or seaweed, that typically grows in the waters along northern Pacific and Atlantic coastlines.
I wonder if this will pass muster with my kosher- and halal-observing friends.
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(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 17 2015, @12:21PM
If your friends seriously believe that a certain food shouldn't be consumed because a magical bearded man in the sky told that to some goat herders centuries ago, then you need to seriously consider your friendship with them.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 17 2015, @12:52PM
Given some of the practices exposed by undercover cameras in slaughter houses strong moral instruction in relatively human dispatch is far from wacky.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 17 2015, @12:55PM
Why? Do you have any indication that it is dangerous to have them as friends?
Actually I'd say historic evidence points more at it being dangerous not to have them as friends.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 18 2015, @07:00AM
LOL
not an expert, but since 1700 there are more atheists killing off religious people than the other way round. The real trouble is being of the "wrong" religion, not being without one.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 18 2015, @07:52PM
[citation needed]
(Score: 3, Interesting) by iwoloschin on Friday July 17 2015, @01:38PM
Who says it was a bearded dude?
For what it's worth, a number of kosher/halal commandments do make sense. Shellfish are bottomfeeders, without appropriate monitoring/testing it's very easy to ingest shellfish that contain toxins that will harm you. I live in New England and every summer there's stories about certain areas being closed for shellfish due to bacterial contamination. We can detect that before eating the shellfish now, but several thousand years ago all we knew was Bob ate some delicious looking mussels, and then died. Probably should put those on the "Do Not Eat" list...
To be fair, a lot of things make no sense. I can understand why you would want to [morally] avoid eating a cheeseburger (cooking a babe in it's mother's milk), but why not a chicken taco with some cheese? It's not like we're milking the chickens.
(Score: 1) by Francis on Friday July 17 2015, @02:30PM
Yes, but that was several thousand years ago. Granted that did continue until relatively recently, but still it's not a particular problem now. If we banned foods that could make us sick if not properly handled, we wouldn't be eating anything. Some of the worst foods for food poisoning these days are things like lettuce which can get a mat of bacteria that's extremely difficult to remove with normal washing.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 18 2015, @12:43AM
> Yes, but that was several thousand years ago. Granted that did continue until relatively recently, but still it's not a particular problem now.
Perhaps you have forgotten that the third world exists?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 17 2015, @04:04PM
I've asked a number of people about the chicken and cheese question. The best answer I've received said that it is about keeping Life (milk is meant to support the life of the young) separate from Death (meat is dead flesh). The other answers boiled down to just doing what they are told.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 17 2015, @06:45PM
The actual prohibition was for boiling a young goat in its mother's milk: http://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/14-21.htm [biblehub.com]
Thus prohibiting a practice which does sound a bit twisted (or sadistic if you're boiling the young goat alive).
But it doesn't actually prohibit eating a cheese burger or a meat pizza.
Firstly the milk is unlikely to come from the mother of the meat involved. Secondly even if it were you're not actually boiling the animal in its mother's milk. Thirdly it ain't a young goat ;).
If the additional requirements added on by others seem ridiculous maybe its because they are ridiculous and shouldn't be followed.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 17 2015, @01:42PM
I've found that many people are strange in their own way.
Being too strange is like trying to define the obscene: you know it when you see it.
While I agree that some religious beliefs or observations can appear to be quite illogical in our present era, some of the practices are rooted in what was sound advice at the time. I say some because I am ignorant regarding much of the topic...
Many scavenging creatures would eat things that would make a person sick, or lived in conditions that could spread illness, or otherwise required much in the way of careful treatement that a typical uneducated commoner would have had a hard time fulfilling while keeping safe. People still die from eating pork that was not cooked properly. It could be argued that the nitrites and such used in bacon preservation has made the practice of eating pork worse, despite the advances in husbandry.
The comment about what happens in slaughterhouses, and how the animals are raised/farmed--those are moral questions as well, and having owned pets, it is saddening to know that animals are not only eaten, but treated poorly before they are killed--and the killing may not be done in a humane way, either. Killing in and of itself is not very humane in the context that the animal is healthy and was born to die.
I am no vegetarian, but I do consider the plight of animals before I eat their nicely packaged remains. And sometimes, my pets join in the eating... ignorance is bliss. But when it comes to undercooked pork, and the health problems resulting from improper treatment of the food (at any stage of the preparation process--from cradle to crave...), it could be argued that the prohibition is not a bad one. It is the context in which they adhere to it that is of most question to me, at least.
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(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Friday July 17 2015, @04:28PM
Walmartians.
Ugh, ewwww + lol=Walmartians.
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(Score: 2) by dyingtolive on Friday July 17 2015, @06:39PM
Kosher food has its advantages. Last time I checked, it was subject to higher standards of inspection than USDA required, and not just the superstitious parts. Halal food stores also have really good food you can't find elsewhere, though I can't speak for the inspection standards wrt halal specifically. Naan comes to mind. Too lazy to bake my own, and the stuff they pass for naan at conventional grocery stores is a sad joke.
Don't get me wrong, I love me some bacon, but it's not like nothing of value is gained in this case by their existence.
Don't blame me, I voted for moose wang!