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Last post: 5 months ago | Thread started: Jul 2, 08, 6:11 a.m.
- paraselene
erm. i guess if pigs made honey it *wouldn't* be kosher. but you can have kosher honey, and, more importantly, kosher bit o honey:

- Dog-earJul 2, 08, 6:16 a.m. – Permalink
- ian
Tea: Halal
(Please note that Halal status is based on absence of any processing aid ingredients or hidden ingredients. Food products in European countries may contain up to 20% undeclared food ingredients. But laws are changing at the end of this year to declare all the ingredients in a food product. The Mushbooh food products have to be under "Suitable for vegetarian" label but without alcohol in flavors and without use of alcohol in spice extraction. The Halal status of McDonald's UK products are based on the ingredients list provided by McDonald on their British web site.


- Dog-earJul 2, 08, 6:19 a.m. – Permalink
- paraselene
it's an interesting debate, though, the matter of honey being kosher. you can't eat bees, but you can eat honey. normally, if something comes from something that isn't kosher, then that thing isn't kosher. honey from bees is the exception that proves the rule.
i think mostly because a) it's awesome and b) you can make the argument that the bees do not 'produce' the honey but merely 'store' it. but that smacks of postrationalisation to me.


- Dog-earJul 2, 08, 6:22 a.m. – Permalink
- schmutzi
i read somewhere that the concept of "kosher" (i guess halal is basically the same thing) is based on ancient crude understanding of nature.
the priests believed that there was a force of chaos in nature, opposite to god´s given order.
all creatures/substances that did not fit their primitive understanding of nature were considered to be chaotic and therefore avoided.
it basically goes like this: fish live in the sea. if it´s living in the sea, and doesn´t not look like a fish, it must be against god´s order, so they don´t eat crabs.
or the carnivore and herbivore thing. if an animal does both, it´s against god´s order, so they don´t eat pigs (which were omnivore wild boars back then).
so it´s obviously hard these days to follow their original concept.


- Dog-earJul 2, 08, 7 a.m. – Permalink
- paraselene
i gotta latent kosher gene. i'm watching attenborough from behind my hands - writhing... grimacing... screaming "that's why we don't eat that shit!"


- Dog-earJul 2, 08, 7:46 a.m. – Permalink




