Re: A Mars a day helps you work, rest and sin
Yaar me don't believe in going to the chemical or molecular level. At a chemical level ingredients exists in all living beings. Even if you read the Quranic ayat where swine is declared haram, please notice the emphasis is on flesh. So the composition must represent flesh. So in other words by-products are not the same as their parent products.
The final form of it must be in a haram state so as to not consume it. And a muslim should not handle haram things by himself. In my opinion we have over-complicated this halal haram issue way too much by ingredient wars.
If ingredients were to make things halal and haram then surely grapes should be haram since they are the basic ingredient in wine.
The thing is we don't understand the scholars who speak with such hikmah. They are not at our levels. They have spent their time in learning deen. A med student has to go through all that schooling to become a doctor. So does a student in deen, he goes through all that to become an Alim.
I trust the scholars over you. :)