Leviticus 3:17
So you and your descendants must never eat any fat or any blood, not even in the privacy of your own homes. This law will never change.
Discuss.
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Well, that leaves only rocks and water. Bon appe’tit!
Republicans aren’t fat, they are all lean muscle. And we no that they have no blood. So we don’t necessarily have to all be vegans.
God didn’t put rabbits here to be eaten! Especially the fat lazy ones.
@3 That is exactly why the great spirit put the rabbit here to feed the wolf, fox, hawk, owl, coyote, ect. in the great web of life, and you are very good with rosemary.
Though rabbits have no silly dietary rules.
So how did the ancient Isrealite;s comply with this rule? I can get the blood as that can be drained out with gravity, but you can never get it out of wool or cotton. All that dribbling it around would have been messy. The fat part has me puzzled as meat is marbled with fat. Is the bible referring to just a specific area of fat? How do kosher butchers do this feat of no fat?
I know that back in the day all these animals would have just been grass fed and probably didn’t get too fat, so the meat would have been less marbled.
Under the robot overlords this silliness will be non-existent. And rabbits will be forced to run in little hoops to power the giant robots eye and ear gyros. They are into very expressive eyes and ears.
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As my ancestors were all Vikings, Pagans, Druids, Picts and Mountain people, and they lived in the only part of the English Island archipelago that the Romans never could conquer in 300 years of trying, I’ll eat all the goddamn blood and fat as I damn well please.
Rare, thank you.
@4 You could never get every blood cell out of meat. Just draining the blood from main arteries leaves a lot of blood around individual tissue cells. And this says “any blood”. Let’s not forget, this book does not give wiggle room, so none should be taken. And there is fat in eggs, vegetables, cheese, milk etc. Olive oil has fat. Butter has fat. This is just another absurd rule by people who had no basis in reality.
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Leviticus 3:17
… This law will never change.
This would imply that other laws may be changed.
Perhaps the intent was to persuade people to make sure meat was fully cooked i. e. no visible hunks of white fat and not dripping with red blood. God (or whoever you choose to give credit for the text) might have been being a little lazy here. Instead of trying to explain trichinosis, red tide and e. coli, it was much easier to just say “Don’t eat swine, don’t eat shellfish and cook the shit out of everything else, or really unpleasant things might happen to you”.
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I believe you are really speaking for them show rabbits that show up every summer at every local county fair and state fair. They strut their stuff and win ribbons and what have you from humans. They also pose naked.
@9 Well it also could be this. I understand that at every house during or before the Passover dinner a young child is supposed to ask a question. The question is about why Passover is celebrated.
I wonder if the Torah came first or if the question came first about a holiday that took place every year, with shaky or dueling mythologies.
The Torah and bible was written by human beings. You can insert any degree of God influence you want, but it’s we humans that put the words on paper with all our good and bad parts.
Even if Moses was inspired by God it’s impossible to sort out which parts are from God and which parts are purely Moses, or if it’s the work of a scribe or scribes of the Babylonian courts to keep the top Cannanite tribe under control.