Imagine that you are an Orthodox Jewish Rabbi and someone hands you a bag of meat. Upon inspection, you conclude the bag contains pork. However, your friend insists that the bag actually contains a delicious meal of chicken. What are some specific scientific tests that you could conduct in order to verify whether or not the bag contains pork?
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I don't know how to answer this one. I actually called up a local synagogue and asked the Rabbi what he would do, and he couldn't suggest any specific scientific tests to verify whether or not a type of meat is pork. He said the best thing he could think of was to get a sample of DNA from the meat and see if it is pig DNA, but that wouldn't be practical. He added that if anyone randomly handed him a bag of meat, he wouldn't eat it, whether it was pork or anything else!
Is the meat cooked?
Thank you for using the Jiskha Homework Help Forum. How interesting that even a rabbi would not know! Hopefully one of the following sites will help:
1. http://www.elisa-tek.com/meatkit.htm
2. www.uga.edu/scwds/topic_index/1991/NEWLAB~1.pdf (You will have to download the pdf file)
3. http://www.cababstractsplus.org/google/abstract.asp?AcNo=20043064815
4. www.cababstractsplus.org/google/abstract.asp?AcNo=20043020453
5. www.food.actapol.net/pub/1_1_2007.pdf (another pdf file, but possibly the best site!)
If the meat is raw squeeze blood out of it and look at it under a microscope. Mammal blood has round red blood cells and avain blood has long oval shaped red blood cells.
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