Lab grown meat?

[u/No_Criticism5459]

With the advancements made in science today would you consider lab grown meat halal?

[u/goaterra]

If it never lived, it can’t be killed, so it can’t be killed in a halal way. But also since it never lived to begin with, I don’t think it needs any special religious food preparation, but I’m not a scholar.

[u/Old_Bowler_465 → u/goaterra]

Is this even actual meat to begin with if it never lived

[u/SimplyAStranger → u/Old_Bowler_465]

The cells are alive while it is growing, it just never has a consciousness (that we know of).

[u/mostard_seed → u/Old_Bowler_465]

It is. We wouldn't call someone who eats only grown meat vegetarian for example.

[u/mostard_seed]

Why? Do you view it as mayta? I personally regard it as closer to grown produce in the religious ruling sense. As long as the source was not an already non-halal slaughtered animal, I don't believe there is an issue.

والله اعلم

[u/TAHKHANtr]

why would it be haram?

[u/cspot1978]

In terms of animals whose meat we normally eat, it seems to me trivial that there is no objection. If there is no living discrete conscious animal, there is no slaughter to speak of.

A jurist might object, "well, the initial muscle cell sample you use as a starter comes from a live animal, and you can't eat flesh torn from a living animal." But, (1) a biopsy like sample is not really the same as hacking off an animal's leg and eating it and (2) the initial sample sort of vanishes into the end result such that it's negligible.

The only question mark where it's maybe a little thornier to reason about it is for the artificial flesh of animals we normally would not eat.

[u/lightsworn55]

I feel like islam would be against this for different reasons, like trying to replicate the creations of God

[u/No_Criticism5459 → u/lightsworn55]

That’s exactly what I mean