3/19: Other white meat

[adamzion]

Originally posted by alphageek31337
I never understood the concept of kosher meat in the modern day and age. As Chris Rock put it, "In those days, they didn't have nothin' to keep pig meat from killin' a man. These days, a porkchop is your friend."

Well, while Reform Judaism takes that approach- that the Kosher laws were established by the Rabbis for reasons of health- more traditional Jews (that is Orthodox and some Conservative Jews) see it differently.

Put simply, pork is explicitly forbidden in the Torah; the Torah came from G-d; therefore G-d doesn't want us to eat pork. Simple. It's one of the class of commandments which might not seem, on its surface, to make logical sense, but there it is, and we're in no position to argue with G-d.

But, being Jews, we'll argue with <b>anyone,</b>
Z