From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!floyd!trb
Newsgroups: net.singles
Title: Re: how to be kosher
Article-I.D.: floyd.977
Posted: Sun Dec 19 15:04:20 1982
Received: Mon Dec 20 19:12:27 1982
References: dadla-b.300

This should go in net.cooks, I guess, but it's a followup to an article
here about whether humans are kosher.

The physical laws about mammals talk about a having a cloven hoof and
chewing cud, a mammal must do both to be kosher.  This rules out pigs
and horses, but not cows, deers (should you be able to catch one safely
to slaughter it properly) and giraffes (should you have enough reach to
be able to properly slit its throat).

I have the following information from a Chasidic Rabbinical student (an
eminently reliable source):

	Humans are not edible under Jewish law, but NOT because of
	"kosher laws," which do not apply to humans.

As a matter of fact, I was told that humans ARE kosher, but there are
other laws against eating them.

Maybe not perfectly clear, but interesting.  (That's the way Jewish law
often is.)

	Andy Tannenbaum   Bell Labs  Whippany, NJ   (201) 386-6491