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Originally Posted by levite
Nobody knows what the original intent of the laws of kashrut were. "Original intent" is kind of a strict-constructionist device that isn't quite transferable into the halakhic (Jewish legal) paradigm. What is relevant to interpretation (for the most part) is not what we guess might have been the original aim of the law, but how the law has been interpreted by the Rabbis of the Talmud, and how it has been interpreted over the past 2000 years. The parameters of something being kosher don't have to do with "quality" like an FDA grade, but simply with whether the animal is on the list of approved kosher animals, whether it was slaughtered in accordance with the laws of ritual slaughter, and whether it has been drained of all blood, in accordance with the law against eating blood.
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I had no idea. So, kosher has to do with simply obeying G-d, then; a divine mystery. That being the case, cloned meat simply wouldn't be an issue then.