Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1exp 11/4/83; site ihuxl.UUCP
Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!harpo!floyd!clyde!ihnp4!ihuxl!esj
From: esj@ihuxl.UUCP (J. Johnson)
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Re:Re: kosher meats
Message-ID: <784@ihuxl.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 6-Dec-83 10:28:05 EST
Article-I.D.: ihuxl.784
Posted: Tue Dec  6 10:28:05 1983
Date-Received: Fri, 9-Dec-83 01:40:39 EST
References: <538@sbcs.UUCP> <447@hou5a.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, Il
Lines: 7

"... not cleanliness laws ..."

I'm not Jewish but a college roommate of mine who is told me that the
laws were originally based on hygiene.  Washing hands and avoiding trichinosis
carriers makes sense if you want to avoid disease.  But then again,
he was an atheist.