Aleph Farms says its cultivated steak is kosher

The products must be labeled 'meat alternative,' says Israel's head rabbi.

Israeli Chief Rabbi David Baruch Lau has ruled cultivated steak produced by Aleph Farms to be kosher, the cultivated meat company announced on Thursday.

Grown from non-genetically engineered animal cells, the cultivated steak will hit the market with a kosher certificate later this year, the company based in Rehovot, Israel, said in…