Kosher animals
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Kosher animals are animals that comply with the regulations of kashrut and are considered kosher foods. These dietary laws ultimately derive from various passages in the Torah with various modificatio
A 15th-century depiction of shechita
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Unclean animal
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In some Abrahamic religions, an unclean animal is an animal whose consumption or handling is taboo. According to these religions, people who handle such animals may need to ritually purify themselves
Kosher animals
…Leviticus 11:3–8 and Deuteronomy 14:4–8 both give the same general set of rules for identifying which land animals (Hebrew: בהמות Behemoth) are ritually clean. According to these, any animal which "chews the cud" (e.g., consumes vegetation and later regurgitates it into the mouth to be re-processed and more…
The pig is considered an unclean animal as food in Judaism and Islam, and some parts of Christianity.
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Townsend's big-eared bat
Blue crab for sale in Piraeus.