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Tesha

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Sat May-21-11 06:30 PM
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12. You can actually understand some of the dietary laws.

Shellfish, unless very fresh, can be bacteriologically
dangerous.

During Red Tides, shellfish can be toxic, period.

Pigs carry Trichinosis.

Perhaps someone noticed that dairy products could be
cross-contaminated from meats.

Kosher/Halal ritual butchering was probably the most-
humane way of dispatching animals known at the time.
And warm blood spoils easily, hence the whole "draining
out" thing.

Then, of course, all this reasonably-good sense got
wrapped up in mythology. And over the years, the
mythology piled deep.

Tesha

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