Israeli rabbis have declared giraffe's milk kosher

Israeli rabbis have declared giraffe's milk kosher.

Ahead of Shavuot, the festival when dairy foods traditionally are eaten, a team of rabbis and Bar-Ilan University scientists have deemed giraffe's milk fit to join the kosher menu.

Giraffes chew their cud and have cloven hooves, which qualifies them as kosher under biblical law. But attempts to breed them for meat were abandoned long ago - according to Jewish law, because no one knew for sure where on the animal's long neck the butcher's knife should land.

But, according to the experts, giraffe's milk is kosher for consumption because technically it is a kosher animal.