Comment by dhosek
3 months ago
There’s a part of me that speculates that the kashrut laws are meant to rule out eating the most intelligent animals (pigs, cetaceans, cephalopods).
3 months ago
There’s a part of me that speculates that the kashrut laws are meant to rule out eating the most intelligent animals (pigs, cetaceans, cephalopods).
I had a college professor who steadfastly believed that pork was a no go because pigs get sunburned. Not because they're resource and time intensive. Not because they're intelligent and weirdly similar to humans.
Sunburns.
I have no idea
Interesting! I'd never thought of that.
Still, though... bivalves?
I think shellfish was more unambiguously a food safety thing
Fair.