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I don't know. But I don't think too many other omnivores were usually eaten: cows, chickens, sheep, even horses are all herbivores. To a larger point, the impr
by pbh101 10y ago
I don't know. But I don't think too many other omnivores were usually eaten: cows, chickens, sheep, even horses are all herbivores.
To a larger point, the imprecision of the rule would have been dictated both by customs and limitations in knowledge of the time: culture inasmuch as there would be no need to restrict eating omnivores that nobody ate anyway, and knowledge would dictate how precise you could be while still being safe: we now know that pork is ok to eat, but only because we have the tools to reliably determine whether pork is tainted, and build processes and supply chains that minimize that. For civilizations that didn't yet have that insight, much safer to avoid the whole thing.
- yen223 10y agoChickens are omnivores - they'll happily eat worms off the ground.
- pbh101 10y agoGood point... I forgot they'll eat just about anything, including eggs. You don't want to feed them brunch scraps, otherwise they may start poking at unharvested eggs sitting around.
- jessaustin 10y agoAlso, chicken carcasses.