- May 2, 2017
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Just a couple of questions I thought of today --
(1) why are shellfish permitted during fasting periods? What's the difference between eating shrimp or mussels or lobster and eating chicken? I'm guessing there's some historical or spiritual reason
(2) is there a restriction on the way that animals have to be killed/prepared? Like in Kosher rules, you have to basically make the animal unable to feel pain; it can't die from blunt force trauma, etc.
(3) are there restrictions on what parts of the animal could be eaten? I know blood isn't allowed, but are there other parts of the animal that are not permitted?
(4) how does the blood restriction work on shellfish? As far as I know (and I'm no expert) the blood isn't drained from a snail the same way it is from a chicken. So it's reasonable to assume that shellfish have blood in them still
(5) what if someone accidentally eats blood or another forbidden product from lack of knowledge about the dish or something? Or what if someone eats a dish that has something forbidden in it (like a soup that has coagulated blood) but they just eat the other parts (like just the broth)?
(1) why are shellfish permitted during fasting periods? What's the difference between eating shrimp or mussels or lobster and eating chicken? I'm guessing there's some historical or spiritual reason
(2) is there a restriction on the way that animals have to be killed/prepared? Like in Kosher rules, you have to basically make the animal unable to feel pain; it can't die from blunt force trauma, etc.
(3) are there restrictions on what parts of the animal could be eaten? I know blood isn't allowed, but are there other parts of the animal that are not permitted?
(4) how does the blood restriction work on shellfish? As far as I know (and I'm no expert) the blood isn't drained from a snail the same way it is from a chicken. So it's reasonable to assume that shellfish have blood in them still
(5) what if someone accidentally eats blood or another forbidden product from lack of knowledge about the dish or something? Or what if someone eats a dish that has something forbidden in it (like a soup that has coagulated blood) but they just eat the other parts (like just the broth)?