Kosher..
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aye para,
me professor at uni wrote a whole book on food and diet and culture and geography etc... and anthromopologists now say that the whole "this you can eat, this you can't" is less about cleanliness and more about identitiy and differentiation.
I mean it's abaat cleanliness too cos both Jewish and Muslim texts go on about it, but it doesn't apply to all the "rules" (cloven hooves/shellfish for example).
But like its about cultures marking themselves as different to others - the less civilised barbarians who will eat anything. Well, that's to put it in a kinda blunt way. But Judaism and Islam are very mush religions of "ways of life" where religious considerations are given to every aspect of living. And eating is the most intrinsic part of life is giving the most rigorous considerations as marking that culture out - a badge of identity - we are the peopel who eat like this. ManY cultures across the world are said to practice strict food laws. A tribe in sub-saharan africa, for example, is said to have 1000s, whereby u aint allowed to eat somethign on monday, only allowed to eat something else on a the morning following a full moon, etc. etc.
People who know their shit say that it's about identity. That every moment you are abuot to consume something, you are reminded of your identity. Which is the reason why i try and avoid pork.
I said try goddamimit!