Thread:Argali1/@comment-26767096-20160514212701/@comment-26184570-20160515203449

Codebreaker 2100 wrote: Argali1 wrote: Oh!

For mammals, they have to have a split hoove, and chew their cud.

You cannot seethe a calf in it's mother's milk. This rule is probably the most unclear and disbuted one.

For birds, they have to be fowl (chickens, ducks, geese pigeons etc).

For fish, they have to have scales and fins.

For something to actually be kashrut, it has to be slaughtered, prepared and handled properly. Even if an animal is Kosher, there are certain parts of it that still can't be eaten (brain, blood etc). For more religious Jews (the ones that fit the Jewish stereotype of always wearing a kippah and having big beards), even things such as cake or cucumbers must be inspected and blessed as Kosher, by a Rabbi.

Any other questions? You can't eat pork, right? So you can never have bacon? I can't imagine a world without bacon. Well, there are certain animals that have additional bans on them along with the general ones, making certain rules more important than others. The #1 no-no is pork, because it is specifically mentioned in the Torah in addition to the blanket rules, and it's importance has evolved to be much larger overtime. Also, I can eat lots of bacon, because ducks are a thing.