The shellfish thing actually makes some sense, I think, in light of the food preservation methods that were available at the time. Likewise with the prohibition against eating pork. I think it was much more about the diseases you could get from certain things if they weren't properly cooked.
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Date: 2007-03-02 04:55 am (UTC)