By Me It's Organic

The newest controversy in the ever-entertaining world of organic food is whether or not a cloned cow can be considered organic.

To summarize and simplify, those in favor say it should be permitted as long as the cloned animal is raised organically. Those opposed say a cloned cow is by its very nature artificial, conceived in a laboratory dish.

We should look to the Jews for an uncomplicated resolution.

In many situations that wouldn't be practical, we Jews being an argumentative people. But in this case we need only refer to Jewish law. It states that a person born of a Jewish mother is by definition Jewish, like it or not.

And so I say of cloned cows: If they come from an organic mother, they, too, are organic.

By the way, this doesn't answer the question of whether meat from a cloned cow can be considered kosher. I'm not getting myself involved in that one.