Forbidden food

The fast answer is religious prohibitions in their Holy scriptures and guidance by the leaders (ie. Mosaic law which they share in part). The follow on answer is more complex and has been bandied about for years. Rationales primarily center around 'unclean behavior' of the animal in question and their lack of understanding of the biological potential reasons behind it. Why pigs for example wallow...To disease they may have contracted as a result of ingestion. Which they viewed contextually as divine curse. Now it's more religious tradition for fundamentalist types then any thing else.

Pigs are seen as unclean because they don't ruminate according to the Old Testament. But generally speaking, the chances of contracting parasitical diseases are much higher with pork than beef or chicken.

Modern Jews are still prohibited from drinking wine made by non-Jews out of fear this had been used for pagan rituals
http://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/ancient-cultures/daily-life-and-practice/making-sense-of-kosher-laws/

Originally posted by Nick1986 Modern Jews are still prohibited from drinking wine made by non-Jews out of fear this had been used for pagan rituals http://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/ancient-cultures/daily-life-and-practice/making-sense-of-kosher-laws/

Jesus drank wine and so did everyone else, since clean drinking water was hard to come by.  The Catholics use wine to represent the blood of Christ, but then they also practice ritualistic cannibalism.  Go figure.

Ritualistic handwashing is another public health religious injunction, since it cut down on transmissions of diseases by Middle Easteners who ate with their right hands and wiped themselves with their left hands.

Now, if you can figure out why Hindus worship cattle....



Edited by Mountain Man - 21-Jan-2013 at 18:44

A disturbing new trend in Australia where white louts go into halal shops and restaurants and demand bacon in the hope of provoking a reaction

Originally posted by Nick1986 A disturbing new trend in Australia where white louts go into halal shops and restaurants and demand bacon in the hope of provoking a reaction

The guy needs to chill out and take it easy. I wouldn't get fussed if someone asked me if I had bacon even if they were slightly malicious in their demand.


@Ollios, some other Shiite groups do hold that rabbit is Haram just as the Jews do. I don't think all of them do. The reason for it and I heard this coming from the mouth of an imam, is that they consider rabbits to be a bug (metaphorically I guess...).