The reason foie gras production is considered cruel is that the geese are force-fed. This article specifically states that the geese are not treated that way. Eating these goose livers should be as cruel as eating chicken (take that any way you will). Thus, this comment about modern day kashrut is misinformed.

Finding ways to find kosher meat that tastes like pork for people who want to eat pork? This is what he thinks is important? Shame on him and shame on the Rabbinate.

don't sweat and there are a lot of toxins in the meat. Turkey bacon tastes like pork bacon but is not toxic like pork is.

GOD says, "Thou shalt not eat pork." Read Leviticus. It is unclean infested with trichna and other diseases.

and most spiritually relevant concept of Kashrute. Justas much as any other reason. No to caged animals! That is NOT kosher or what hashes wants. Common sense.

I think one of the reasons there is a forbid on pork (Jews and moslems both) is not trychinosis (how could the ancients know about that?), but the fact that pigs don't graze and they need alot of food. In a desert climate where people wandered from place to place in order to find the little green there was for their goats and sheep, pigs would not be a practical animal to raise. Actually, I think the rabbi is surprisingly open-minded, and like everything, no one forces anyone to eat pork or look at naked women if they dont want to.

There is a common misconception, exemplified by talkback #2, that kashrut is based on health. Many people, especially in the non-religious world, claim that certain foods were prohibited because they contained parasites or transmitted food-borne illnesses, and because today we have modern methods of food handling, the laws of kashrut no longer apply. In fact, the opposite is true. First, modern food-handling methods have not prevented large-scale outbreaks of salmonella, E.coli, etc., in both the kosher and non-kosher food supply. But more importantly, the laws of kashrut are a G-d given pillar of Jewish practice. One can conjecture various reasons for the laws of kashrut, but for a believing Jew, that does not change the fact that he/she is obligated to follow the laws.

There are a number of question/issues I have with this. 1.) How would the Rabbinate know what pork tastes like if they've never had 'anything' that's non-kosher? 2.) The fact that the Rabbi is apparently lusting after this 'forbidden' product, should be the bigger issue. If he wants it so bad, then no amount of substitutes will satisfy him. He'll eventually just eat the pork. What's worse is that someone who apparently condems others for not being Kashrut is now trying to find ways of getting around all the "walls" the rabbinate put around the Talmud. This voids out the true intention of what Torah was meant for.

It is barbaric to keep an animal hemmed up in an area barely large enough for them to turn around. Then food is force fed into them through tubes that cause the liver to swell to enormous size.At the end of this TORTURE these poor animals are murdered so as to line the pocketbooks of their keepers. This is no way to treat one of HASHEMS creatures.

will state the most obvious nonsense with ease and confidence. First off are the ones that think they caught the rabbi in some gaffe because "how can he know what pork tastes like"??!! lol my friends way to prove you need to improve your reading comprehension level because it doesn't state that at all in the article. it doesn't even imply it. And second to those who think that somehow its a "loophole" and therefore a "shortcut" please remember that PIG is unkosher NOT the TASTE. wow please please tell me you can grasp the difference between the two basic concepts. and trust me that the rabbi used the concept of "for every non kosher there is a kosher" in order to minimize the impact of people feeling that they are eating an unkosher animal because at the end of the day it is A GOOSE and a goose is a goose is a goose which means it is kosher.

So, the good Rabbi took the word of the Shabbat Goy to make up his mind. Elementary !

How would Jews know what pork,,, or affectionately called swine by pagans and abhorrently by Yehushua, taste like if they haven't eaten it and for G-d's sake and the Rabbi's I hope he didn't partake of this filth which it takes about 7yrs to cleanse the body of the parasitic trachina worm. If it doesn't chew the cud,, anyway why would a Rabbi want to be associated with anything about a pig(swine), I did see the humor in this but "taste like pork",, I think we are slipping of the page, the page of a book called the Tanakh.

Goose liver is produced by cruel force-feeding of geese. This our chief rabbi is encouraging - so that the religious can eat *kosher* pork!

Jews should be vegetarian as cruelty to animals is forbidden. Foie gras in particular is horrendously cruel and no Rabbi can justify the cruelty of this or quite frankly, eating animals at all. This person is not following Judiasm.

No, no. It only looks like a cote de porc, but I am sure it is made of foie gras, magic mushroom or whatever. - Oh, good.

chips salad and a coke,for a good a Jewish boy like me.

Why is Rabbi Metzger trying to appease the Jewish tribe with pork flavor? Arron did the same with the golden calf. Goose isn't even domesticated.

After shabot when I eat this tasty treat if I think about a pig every I eat this, I got some real problems and I don't need my family to compound it.

PORKY IS BEST. Corny gag, ain't it ? Long live my jewish brethren !

How many Jews eat california roll, thinking it's fake crab meat, simply bec. a lot of sushi places, including kosher ones, make it with fake crab meat, but are actually eating real nonkosher crab meat? Just something to think about... Also, don't rabbis prohibit chicken with dairy because they were worried people would confuse chicken with meat? Oy...

There's fish that tastes like crab. What's the big deal?

The whole issue is they say, they claim, the experts you know, and yes the Rabbi, poor, poor, man, it TASTE LIKE PORK, if they didn't say that, I might have been convinced to indulge, I am a connoisseur of what HaShem permits us to eat that is good and clean in this world but "TASTE LIKE PORK" you just spoiled the whole meal, I'll certainly pass on this cause it TASTE LIKE PORK.

@36 Maybe its the nature of the animal that is forbidden, pigs are some filthy animals and like chickens will eat spittle and their own feces. I worked on a pig farm here in Virginia and we had to inject the sows with hormones to keep them from eating their newborn. I saw one sow birth 11 and she ate 5 of them no joke. Its the nature of this dumb filthy beast that just eats garbage and is carnivorous and would eat your dead rotten flesh if available. I've eaten some livers in my day, never a goose but now if you say it taste like pork, pig, swine, thanks Rabbi for the info.

The ancients wouldn't have known about the germs, but they could have seen after a long while over generations that some people who ate pork had certain disease symptoms and put two and two together. These are the same people as us, just not as technologically advanced.

If you read the article it says multiple other people tasted it, not the rabbi. The rabbi only examined its kashrut status which doesn't involve a taste test from what I know.

He asked his Rabbi.

And where did buy that Eric?

anything about the fact that the writer says "They decided to share the sensational discovery with the chosen people"....

What about mad cow disease and other diseases as brucellosis. Truce is that we can not eat grassand, therefore grass eaters are not competing with us for food. We do not limit our food supply, by eating animals who digest cellulose based foods. Pigs eat the same food that we are eating. The easiest way to prohiibit certain activities is to invoke god in that prohibition, and not really look for any rational explanation, why not Henryk

The Rabbinate today have sunk to the pits. we do not do certain things in case someone sees and trips up. Similarly a scholar of Talmud would derive forbidding things akin to trefe by smell or taste. Rabbinate seem to care for Mamon and shows signs of ignorance . I am really sad that Metzger can sink so low.