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Preventing meat and dairy contacting is based on a moral argument against mixing products of life with products of death. I don’t think it was ever about health
by zappb 2y ago
Preventing meat and dairy contacting is based on a moral argument against mixing products of life with products of death. I don’t think it was ever about health.
- MisterTea 2y agoThis is what I have heard as well. However, imagine the gastrointestinal distress one would have after consuming spoiled milk and not so fresh meat...
- SSLy 2y agoone could also eat a ripe pear with such milk and experience similar unpleasantness
- vintermann 2y agoI would rather think it was about idolatry/other gods. Boiling a kid in its mother's milk sounds like a ritual, symbolic act of cruelty - pretty tame by Levantine standards, with its brazen bulls and child sacrifices. If you believed the gods were sadistic bastards, whose power you could call on with an act of cruelty - it wouldn't be such a strange thing to believe, after a rough period of hundreds of years where cruel people rewarded again and again - then a little symbolic cruelty to whet Baal's appetite might seem like a clever move.
- kragen 2y agoTecnically Sicily isn't actually in the Levant and Phalaris wasn't born until about 700 years after the period in question.