30 Mar
2012
30 Mar
'12
9:46 a.m.
On 30 Mar 2012 at 12:22, Mouse wrote:
I feel reasonably sure the answer is "they ignore
them"; certainly in
the few cases I can answer confidently it is. Such prohibitions often
(usually?) are actually aimed at intoxication, by way of intoxicants;
equating that with the presence of ethanol leads to errors in both
directions. (Of course, how much people care about those errors
varies.)
Like everything else, the devil's in the details. Even your most
hard-core Mormon will probably enjoy a cool drink of ginger ale or
root beer (if fermented, probably about 0.5 percent alcohol). Do any
other fermented foods, such as sauerkraut contain alcohol in traces?
And how far do you have to genetically engineer a pig before it's not
a pig?
--Chuck