‘Human hair, while not particularly appetizing, is Kosher’, states Rabbi Zushe Blech, the author of Kosher Food Production, on Kashrut.com ‘There is no “guck” factor’, Blech maintained, in an email. Dissolving hair in hydrochloric acid, which creates the L-cysteine, renders it unrecognisable and sterile. The rabbis’ primary concern had not to do with hygiene but with idol worship. ‘It seems that women would grow a full head of hair and then shave it off and offer it to the idol’, wrote Blech. Shrine attendants in India have been known to surreptitiously collect the hair and sell it to
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The things I learn in that book... lol
