The faithful plate

For most of the world’s population, to eat — or not eat — meat is a matter of personal choice. Not so the some 2.7 billion Jews, Muslims and Hindus for whom dietary laws are central to their worship.

For them, the technology that enables plants or mycoprotein to mimic animal products may pave the way to try dining options that have been off-limits for millennia. And with federal approval to serve cultivated proteins to…