Giraffe milk has been declared Kosher

by Shayna Glick, Posted Jun 7th 2008 @ 2:01PM

A view of two giraffes from the neck up, with trees and shrubs behind them.

Even though I don't know very much about Kosher law, I do know that one who keeps Kosher can only eat certain animal proteins. Now you can add giraffe to that list.

Recently at the Safari Park, Israel's largest zoo, vets took some milk from a female giraffe and sent it to some Rabbis to see if it was Kosher. Turns out it is. The Rabbis said that the milk formed curds correctly, and since giraffes "belong to the family of grazing animals that have cloven hooves and chew the cud" they should be considered Kosher.

What I don't get is why, if the vets were treating the female for something, did they send its milk to Rabbis for Kosher consideration? That point wasn't really addressed in the Telegraph Online article. Oh well, I guess there's now one more option for those who keep Kosher!

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Tags: giraffe, Israel, Kosher, Rabbi

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6-07-2008 @2:42PM Big John said... It's extremely possible they sent some to get checked in addition to getting tested for whatever they were treating...
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6-07-2008 @5:03PM Rich said... No, giraffe *milk* has been declared kosher. Giraffe meat has been kosher all along, but there's no-one slaughtering giraffes according to kashrut because there's no demand:

http://www.kashrut.com/articles/giraffe/
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6-07-2008 @5:43PM Jim said... Sigh.

The plural of "rabbi" is "rabbis". There's no need for an apostrophe.

This isn't 3rd grade anymore.

http://www.queens-english-society.com/
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6-08-2008 @9:59AM Shayna Glick said... Jim:
I appreciate your correction, I really do. However, comments like "it's not the 3rd grade anymore" are uncalled for. A simple apostrophe mistake every once in a while is nothing compared to the disgusting grammatical errors I see on a regular basis in other places. At the very least, you'll never see me confuse "then" and "than", and I know the difference between the various forms of "to". I will always be happy to acknowledge a mistake and correct it, but I don't need a long suffering attitude to go with it.
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6-08-2008 @10:09AM Shayna Glick said... Jim:

I appreciate the correction, I really do. However, comments like "it's not the 3rd grade anymore" are uncalled for. A simple apostrophe mistake every once in a while is nothing compared to the egregious grammatical mistakes I see regularly in other places. I will always welcome a correction and fix a mistake, but I don't need a long-suffering attitude to go with it.
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