re: #134 The Pie Overlord!
Cloven hooves and rumination are the requirements for a kosher animal. The reason swine are not kosher is because they are not ruminates.
AFAIK the Godless Scientist who created the ‘pig’ ticked all the kosher dietary restrictions so I’m sure rumination was also a feature (it’s a long time since I read the story, as I said it was a very minor piece to begin with). I don’t recall what the ending was but I think it involved the rebbe biting into a rasher of ‘bacon’ after determining that the animal it came from wasn’t actually a pig but a totally new form of life.
Yes yes I know it’s not that easy to bio-edit a lifeform as complicated as a mammal and have it thrive and reproduce but it was written a long time ago and SF to start with.