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| rea5245:
--- Quote from: nctnico on June 15, 2023, 06:23:53 pm --- --- Quote from: rea5245 on June 15, 2023, 12:45:56 am ---My interpretation is that the meat from such animals (like pigs) is hard to preserve for a reasonable amount of time c.q. needs to be cooked thouroughly. --- End quote --- I'd never heard that interpretation before. Is it really the case that the meat of animals with cloven hoofs who chew their cud, is easier to preserve than others? In any case, it's not a matter of DNA corruption. --- End quote --- |
| TimFox:
I was taught that swine (pork) was deemed "unclean" due to the real and present danger of trichinosis. The Hebrew scriptures include a lot of other edibles as unclean, as well. See Leviticus, chapter 11. The lists of clean and unclean include mammals, birds, seafood, and insects. When working with a Muslim in the UK, in order to avoid accidental offense to other Muslim co-workers, I asked what besides pork and alcohol was unclean in Islam. His basic answer was things not likely to be found there (such as roadkill), but to watch for food that had been cooked in lard. |
| AndyBeez:
Well guys, if the Chicxulub meteor event did for the dinosaurs, some 74,000 years ago, the Toba Super Eruption almost did for the human race. The theory goes that after one of the largest recorded paleo eruptions of the Holocene epoch, the resulting climate catastrophe depleted the population of homo sapiens to such a small number, that humanity found itself on the endangered species red list. From just a few thousand breeding pairs, the DNA of those survivors is in each and every one of us. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toba_catastrophe_theory Red list of endangered species : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IUCN_Red_List |
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