I presume the moz. was up to your standards? Have you tried making any other cheeses in limited time? I'm curious how one mimics the flavor of an "older" cheese...

Thank the gods for kosher people. They did all the pioneering work on rennet substitutes, and thanks to them I get to buy my cheese with delicious and animal-product-free microbial coagulants. But when not at home, I'll eat the rennet-laden stuff. For some reason I'm under the impression that goat's cheese has no rennet. Is that true?

Microbial coagulants are worse than traditional rennet. Killing millions of microbes is much worse than killing just one cow. The moral choice is what's called GM rennet. Since the organisms creating the chymosin are Genetically Modified they don't have souls and therefore it's perfectly fine to enslave them for the production of chymosin (Too bad the milk cows aren't GM). I only eat GM rennet cheese. It also tastes better since chymosin is the same coagulant used in most traditional cheeses.

Also, for those of you who eat cheese made from traditional rennet sources (i.e. from cow stomachs), there is no moral distinction between eating a steak and eating such cheese. Either way you are murdering a cow.

Also, though I don't agree with them, if you follow the faith of the Vegetarian Society whose gospel says “Genetically Modified products or products containing Genetically Modified ingredients are not acceptable to the Vegetarian Society because the Society believes it is impossible to guarantee that such products are completely in accordance with the Society’s vegetarian principles.” then you have to stop drinking diet soda since aspartame is made with GM products.

"“Genetically Modified products or products containing Genetically Modified ingredients are not acceptable to the Vegetarian Society because the Society believes it is impossible to guarantee that such products are completely in accordance with the Society’s vegetarian principles.”

You're lying! They did not say that! Goddamn patchouli-stinking hippies are going to destroy the vegetarian movement with their bullshit. unbelievable

"Killing millions of microbes is much worse than killing just one cow." Finally a real utilitarian on Jewcy! Thanks SimpleLiquid, I always thought Singer was a fraud anyway!

Joey - as far as I know most goat cheeses (the soft, spreadable kind) don't have rennet because they're not as congealed as hard cheeses and don't need it.  That's why it's a lot easier to find kosher goat cheese.  But I'm assuming that hard cheeses made out of goats milk are just as likely to be cow-stomach-ified. 

I agree with François - the utilitarian purity is truly consistent. I am also reminded of a wise, often forgotten song in praise of Catholic moral teaching from Monty Python's Meaning of Life....

Even innocent yellow jello has rennet, from the cow's stomach.

Yes, it'll never taste the same!