[Sca-cooks] Kosher or Not

[Phil Troy/ G. Tacitus Adamantius]

Also sprach Stefan li Rous:
>So, if I take a pig gene and splice it into a chicken, is the chicken no
>longer kosher? Eventually I imagine the experts are going to have to deal with
>those kinds of questions.

Ya know, you're sort of kidding, and we all know that, but my first
reaction is to ask if the resultant critter cleaveth the hoof and
cheweth the cud ;-).

And as a matter of fact, I STR reading that some genetic tampering
has been done somewhere to produce a pig that does both, and in some
odd way has been adjudged by the people who make such calls, as
Kosher (or potentially so, assuming Kosher slaughter and butchering
requirements are observed).

I'm not so sure what point there is to this kind of thing, but there it is.

Adamantius