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There may even be a spiritual danger from drinking blood, as this may open up one to demonic forces. The result is frequently seen in usual phenomena of possession. Animal poisons are stored and concentrated in the fat. Thus, a faithful worshipper such as Abel would have no offering fat left to eat himself, for he would have burned it all. In the case of heart disease, blame does not fall equally on all fats. Chemically, the fats in food come in several varieties.
A large body of research indicates that saturated fats are the ones to watch, in keeping guard against heart disease. Where the diet is rich in these animal fats, heart disease is generally a problem. Eating saturated animal fats causes a buildup of cholesterol in human arteries and veins, in turn causing atherosclerosis, or hardening of the arteries. Since the kidneys and the caul lobe above the liver of clean animals were treated the same way as fat Exodus Both the liver and kidneys filter blood: What did the Egyptians eat?
The ancient Egyptians refined flour. The rich led sedentary lives. Leaving the table to vomit so as to return and indulge in more food was a common custom in Egypt, as well as in Rome. Today we call this "bulimia. Characteristics of Clean and Unclean Animals. Actually, certain rabbits and some other animals re-ingest part of their feces, so the material goes through their alimentary canal twice.
But it is a sign of insanity or sexual perversion in man. Rabbits do not have multiple stomachs like clean animals, such as cows. Hooves protect clean animals from cuts and injury, which are gateways for germs, parasites and disease to enter the body. Thus, clean animals are freer from diseases and parasites than animals without hooves. They get all their nutrition from plants, again resulting in less disease, fewer parasites, and healthier meat.
Predatory animals consume fat and blood and diseased animals. When one eats the flesh of unclean animals, the meat digests in three hours, compared to 18 hours for clean meats. The hog digests its slop in three and one-half hours, whereas a cow takes 24 hours to send its food through two digestive processes.
Special enzymes and bacteria in the stomachs of ruminants help them break down plant matter into food, without absorbing poisons. In contrast, there are over 42 diseases and parasites humans can get from eating swine. Hemenway lists numerous diseases which can be transmitted to humans from unclean animals: While you can catch some diseases and parasites from even clean animals, the severity and quantity of such dangers are significantly less. Even milk from unclean animals is different than milk from clean animals.
Characteristics of Clean and Unclean Fish. Recently, Oregon banned harvest of all shellfish on half its coastline. They have paralytic shellfish poisoning disease, which can be transmitted to humans, and cannot be removed by cooking. The disease can lead to death through respiratory failure. Do you think it is safe to eat catfish? One of the primary purposes of scales is to provide the fish with a coat of armor, which protects it from cuts, predators, and parasites.
Scales also brilliantly reflect light, repelling parasites like leeches which avoid light. Fins help clean fish to maneuver so as to keep from getting hookworms, and dislodge any that have attempted to attach themselves in spite of the protective scales. Clean fish have gill covers called opercula, which again provide protection from worms, bacteria, and other parasites.
As a general rule, clean fish are not scavengers. Herring and sardines eat plankton; salmon, tuna and mackerel eat other fish; cod eat mollusks; and flounder and halibut eat most types of food. But shellfish eat dead and decayed plants and animals and waste from sewers, garbage and pollution, and are scavengers living at the bottom of the ocean. Not surprisingly, the meat of shellfish digests in a period of three hours as opposed to 18 for clean fish.
Names of fish are not always a sure guide for telling which ones are good to eat. The sick Oregon shellfish I referred to, became ill by consuming the dinoflagellate parasite. This poisonous protozoa is commonly called the "red tide. He says that "the only safe oyster is one which has been protected from contamination with fecal pathogens for at least some months prior to harvesting," page They may be infected when dredged from sewage-polluted beds in which they live and grow," page Maybe the Japanese are right: Characteristics of Clean and Unclean Fowl.
The six characteristics of clean birds are listed elsewhere in this article. One or more of these characteristics is lacking in all unclean birds. The Jewish Mishnah says that "a bird that seizes food in its claws is unclean; one which has an extra talon, a craw, and the skin of whose stomach can be pealed, is clean," Hul. This prevents poisons from being assimilated into its meat, just like ruminant animals.
According to Robert Burton Bird Behavior , page 76 , leaf-eating birds such as swans, geese, grouse, ducks, pigeons and other game birds, have bacteria in their intestines which break down cellulose. Pigeons and doves use their crop to store, or partly digest, food taken too quickly for the stomach to handle. During brooding season, the crop produces "milk" from seeds eaten, which is regurgitated for the young.
This is one form of rumination, making these clean birds similar to clean animals which chew their cud. On the other hand, clean birds are predominantly vegetarian, eating leaves, nuts, seeds and fruits. This means that clean birds have less disease and fewer parasites. Owls eat rats and other disease-carrying rodents. Eagles eat dead animals. Vampire bats drink blood and bats, in general, can carry rabies.
Characteristics of Clean and Unclean Insects. I guess I would have to be pretty hungry before I would attempt to do so. But, why are grasshoppers clean insects? Most orthoptera an order of insects including grasshoppers and crickets are vegetarians. Grasshoppers, according to Hemenway, have a crop, gizzard, gastric caeca intestines and a stomach, in that order, from front to back. Like clean animals, grasshoppers chew their food with two powerful grinding jaws called mandibles. Unclean insects are generally scavengers, omnivores and occasionally predators.
They bite and suck instead of chew thoroughly like the grasshopper. Even though bees are unclean, their honey is fit to eat, since it is converted pollen from flowers, and not actually from the bees themselves. Many unclean "creeping things" are notorious disease carriers. Arabs commonly eat locusts this way: They remove the head, which pulls out the viscera as it comes off, then they remove the tail, wings and legs, leaving the "thorax," which is dried and either toasted for immediate use, or stored.
Again, I would have to be really hungry to be motivated to try eating grasshoppers. How the Swine is Unclean. A pamphlet by C. Leonard Vories, entitled "The Hog: We know that God had some purpose in creating the hog, and we may well believe that He designed that it should be a scavenger in the animal kingdom Many thousand of hens and hundreds of hogs were kept on this farm.
When hens would die, they would be put into burlap sacks. After some had lain in the sacks for days and the odor from them had become unbearable, they were then loaded onto a truck and hauled to the hog pen where they became feed for the hogs. When the foul, impure foods upon which the hog will feed are referred to in connection with the teaching that pork is unfit for food, many will say that the hog is no more filthy in its habits of feeding than a chicken. If this were true, there is still a vast difference between the digestive system of a hog and that of a chicken.
The chicken has two stomachs -- the glandular stomach and the gizzard On pages , Vories quotes Dr. The animals that chewed the cud and divided the hoof, such as the ox, sheep, goat, deer, buffalo, etc. It thus takes clean, vegetable food over twenty-four hours to be turned into flesh The dietary habits of all such vegetarian animals were also clean, in comparison with that of the omnivorous swine This flesh the law condemns as unclean; not merely ceremonially unclean, but hygienically and physiologically as well The diet of the pig is so deadly that it generally kills the animal itself in about eight or ten years.
If you examine carefully you will find a small abrasion behind the front foot of the pig. Rub it off clean and press the leg just above the abrasion, and you may squeeze a teaspoonful of dirty matter from it. This is original pork gravy. It helps to drain off the teeming filth with which the system is filled His blood is turned into blood pudding; his stomach is transformed into tripe; his feet are pickled; his intestines are used for sausage covers; his heart, liver, and kidneys are cooked; and his very bristles are sought for wax ends, etc.
Pigs cannot be easily killed by strychnine or rattlesnakes. Indeed, pigs have been used to rid ranches of snakes. How can pork be good food to eat? From His Tail to His Snout. Reagan, which is a commentary on Bible verses relating to unclean foods: We cook him with cabbage or boil him with greens; With his mangy old hide we season our beans; With his scabs and his boils within and without Sweet Piggy we eat from his tail to his snout.
On filth they feast, while in stink-holes they lay And still for their carcass our money we pay. The preacher, professor, or the judge on his bench Eat the carrion-eater, his filth and his stench. In the filth you can see him clear up to his eyes, His slimy old carcass all covered with flies; Most dead with cholera, due to butcher, no doubt , We still think him good from his tail to his snout. We eat the old grunter, we eat the young shoat; The fat that we fancied may be pus or bloat.
It would smell as good, and as healthy no doubt As the hoofs and the hide, the tail and the snout. We may like him lean, or may like him best fat; Just as well eat the dog, or else eat a cat; Just as well eat the buzzard, the owl or the bat, The lizard or the snake, the mole or the rat. Our most sensitive natures would almost run wild If we handled the corpse of a man or a child. But we sit at our tables and cram down our throat, With the greatest relish -- the corpse of a shoat.
If we eat his flesh, or touch his dead carcass, With sin and disease it surely will mark us. The dirtiest of beasts we will not do without But eat them we will, from the tail to the snout. We might shun many ills, and diseases, no doubt, By not eating him -- from his tail to his snout. Though you wash him, or teach if you will, He still will go back to his mire and his swill. You may think of fresh pork as a very rare treat, But our bodies are made of just what we eat, And the food he has eaten, the filth of the land, Goes into our body as food, second-hand.
Associated With Unclean Meats. Leprosy, the most dreaded disease of the Bible, is contagious in some stages. To have the disease meant separation from loved ones through quarantine, and a slow and painful death. Transmitted through blood, excretions, and possibly sexual intercourse, leprosy was dreaded and feared in ancient times like AIDS is today.
Just as Israel is to eschew unclean foods, so Israel is to quarantine those unclean individuals infected with leprosy. There are approximately ten million cases of leprosy worldwide. The source, or cause, of leprosy does not appear to be clear. Leprosy may result from unclean practices associated with living near the ocean or large rivers and lakes. George Bushe Notes on "The Book of Leviticus," page , edition states that ancient and modern physicians confirm "that persons who indulged in pork were peculiarly liable to leprosy and other cutaneous [skin] disorders.
Leprosy is a type of sin. Those who had it were ashamed and a disgrace. New-born babies of leprous parents are often as pretty and healthy as any, but soon the leprosy starts to produce visible signs. What a type and example this unclean disease is, of the nature of sin! The Hebrew word for abomination means "filthy, detestable. What Antiochus Epiphanes did in B. Those involved in gross idolatry eat and sacrifice unclean animals. One cannot understand the Abomination of Desolation without an understanding of clean and unclean meats.
Inquisition a Type of Great Tribulation. The infamous inquisition of the middle ages was marked by the Catholic Church forcing "heretics" and Jews to recant their faith and be baptized into the Catholic Church. Those who kept the Sabbath and the Law of Clean and Unclean Meats were special targets of persecution. In late 14th Century Spain, mobs threatened Spanish Jewry with extinction.
While thousands of Jews accepted death, over , Jews compromised their beliefs, and were "baptized" into the Catholic Church. But secretly, they continued to practice their faith. The Inquisition is a type of the difficult times ahead, and may even involve the same religious issues, as well as the same persecutors. This should not be surprising, for the Sabbath does the same thing.
We are not to stay away from nonbelievers. In the office environment where I work daily, my beliefs often separate me from my fellow workers. I cannot go to the annual Christmas Party. Once again, I cannot participate! Nonbelievers will almost invariably order pizza with pork sausage on it.
There is no way I will compromise, pick out the unclean meat, and eat the rest. So, I have to be careful to take advantage of the few social opportunities that I do have. Once, on a business trip with fellow employees to Houston, Texas, we had an enjoyable meal at an expensive restaurant. As I judiciously ordered from the menu, avoiding unclean foods, someone at our table ordered a gigantic platter of Cajun crawfish!
I had to fight not to gag at the smell and sight of this slimy mess. Then, logically, the Sabbath and Holy Days, and many other laws would also be null and void. The result would be, that nothing would separate the believer in the Messiah from the nonbeliever. Wherever there is law, there is inescapably a line of separation. Conversely, wherever there is no law, there is no line of separation.
There is no question but that these [food] laws were and are basic to good health; there is also no question about the fact that they are laws of holiness. These laws of holiness are a "blessing" Deut.
Hence, Armstrong did not preach to the world about unclean meats. It is bad because, according to Dr. Philo Condemns Unclean Foods. Much of it is history, and it is certainly all true, but it was not given to us as a nutrition guide. It is only in Leviticus Shortly after, during the final battle scenes, "rightfully [ Like clean animals, grasshoppers chew their food with two powerful grinding jaws called mandibles.
Herbert Armstrong and the "Pork Obsession". Armstrong , Chapter During the spring and summer of , Elders Sven Sam A. Armstrong reports that Ray had developed an "obsession" against eating unclean meats. Elder Ray continually emphasized this doctrine, giving the impression that the eating of pork was the greatest of sins.
Ray demanded that Armstrong state his position on the subject. However, Armstrong believed it was merely "a physical FOOD question, rather than a spiritual principle or Gospel subject. Hence, Armstrong did not preach to the world about unclean meats. He personally did not eat unclean meats, and taught all converts not to eat unclean meats.
Finally, Armstrong challenged Ray to give him scriptural grounds for preaching about unclean foods to the unconverted. He did not at that time believe that eating pork was a sin, only that abstinence from unclean meats is a good physical health law. Many of the Church of God, Seventh Day, ministry of the time believed pork was a BIG issue, and would not baptize converts unless they first abstained from eating pork, and began keeping the Sabbath. Armstrong said that he would baptize converts first, then afterwards teach them about unclean meats.
Sometimes, it was long afterwards. He said nothing, but took a little. It was only later that she found out he taught against eating pork. It is very surprising that Armstrong gave the impression of being a "liberal" with regard to church doctrine during the early years. And so that is the answer to our original question—Is Eating Pork Unclean? The answer is still the same as the one given to Peter so long ago. What God has declared clean let no man call unclean.
And so pork is clean. It has occasionally been maintained that God sent this vision as a kind of symbolic representation of the fact that God was calling Gentiles as well as Jews to be Christians, cleansing them by the blood of Christ. That is true, of course, but the reason that is so is because Gentile foods, including pork, have been declared clean by God Himself. In Christ the ceremonial laws of the Old Testament have come to an end—no more sacrifices, no more Levitical priesthood, no more cleanliness laws.
As the writer of Hebrews points out over and over again, why would you keep the ceremonial shadows of Christ, when the Reality has come? And so, Peter and all Christians, have, in Christ, received freedom from the ceremonial laws imposed on the Jews until Messiah should come. Christians may eat pork because God has declared it once more to be clean.
The problem is if reads Isaiah 66 you will see that God say that at end he will destroy those who eats pork flash. How you Explain that? Fabricio, I appreciate your comment, and your question is the reason we posted this article. While in Isaiah, God was referring to those who were unclean whether Jew or Gentile it seems—see the beginning of the passage for discussion on those who offered sacrifices with hypocritical hearts , Jesus came to fulfill the law. The New Testament clearly teaches that those who are in Christ are no longer bound to the ceremonial law of Moses.
As recorded in Acts , Peter is even confronted by God and told to kill and eat things that Peter considered unclean, but that God said He had cleansed. The ceremonial law, while a beautiful and meaningful shadow of things to come, is over. We are clean because of Christ, not because of what we eat or do not eat.
Thanks for your feedback! Hope to see you at the farm some time! But why did God declare pork unclean in Deuteronomy and Leviticus? The spiritual reason behind it? And the Israelites were to keep the laws as God gave them to Moses the second time on Mt. They were to be His people, and His alone. They were not to make a covenant with the inhabitants of that land or worship their gods.
It is just one of the many laws that God gave them to keep as part of His covenant with them. The spiritual reason behind it was that it was an abomination. God uses the word abomination some eleven times. And it was not just for Jews at all, contrary to what some might like you to believe. Part of his research with the microscope revealed to him a specific state that the blood MUST be in for cancer to develop. In his notes he made notation of a curiosity to him. He had discovered that pork caused the specific state for cancer to develop and grow very rapidly.
Audiences were taken aback by such preposterous political disregard, buffoonery, and cynicism at a time of economic and political crisis. As wonderful as Monkey Business , Horse Feathers , and Duck Soup seem today, some critics and moviegoers found them unpleasant and longed for the more orderly world of The Cocoanuts with its musical banalities.
Years later, Groucho's son Arthur Marx described Irving Thalberg 's assessment of the film's purported failure during a National Public Radio interview:. You can't root for the Marx Brothers because they're a bunch of zany kooks. Most critics at the time disliked it because of its "dated" look at politics. Christopher Null believes, "the send-up of Mussolini -types doesn't quite pan out. Take the comedy, leave the story. Even Groucho himself did not initially think too highly of the film.
When asked the significance of the film's politics, Groucho only shrugged and said: We were just four Jews trying to get a laugh. The Marx Brothers took the opposite approach, telling them to change the name of their town to keep from hurting their movie. Despite the tepid critical response at the time, Duck Soup is now seen as a classic political farce. Strangelove , only slightly more unnerving in that Duck Soup doesn't seem to realize it is anything more than innocent fluff.
Revived interest in the film and other s comedies in general during the s was seen as dovetailing with the rebellious side of American culture in that decade.
In , Duck Soup was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". In , readers of Total Film magazine voted Duck Soup the 29th greatest comedy film of all time. The film is recognized by American Film Institute in these lists:. Another testament to Duck Soup' s legacy is its influence on Woody Allen films.
Near the end of Allen's Hannah and Her Sisters , a chance screening of Duck Soup convinces Allen's character that life is still worth living, and he abandons his suicidal impulses. Duck Soup is also frequently cited as a major influence of the comedic side of The Beatles , [39] [40] [41] and The Beatles themselves admitted that it was an inspiration for their film Help! Duck Soup has had further lasting influence in the world of animation , with homages appearing in various animated television series. The film was spoofed in Animaniacs as the full-episode sketch " King Yakko ".
One specific gag from the original, the constant singing of the Freedonian national anthem, was spoofed in particular with a Perry Como caricature. Groucho's entrance in the film was borrowed in another Animaniacs cartoon, " The Three Muska-Warners ". Firefly share the same bloodline, representing a more generalized contempt for world leaders of any stripe, whether they don a 'supreme beard' or a greasepaint moustache.
Reviewing the set, film critic Mark Bourne writes:. Shortly before this DVD set hit the streets, a pre-release report by nationally syndicated entertainment columnist Marilyn Beck stated that "racially-offensive material" would be edited from this edition of Duck Soup. Specifically, material "that has been deplored and debated in the 'We're Going to War' production number. The possibility of new contextually obtuse editing is bad enough.
What made her column even more galling was the satisfied tone in her statement that such a "well-made edit makes the film a pure zany joy without an ugly blot in it to spoil the fun.
No such edits exist in this edition. I've always been on the fence about this one. In my write-up, of course, I argue that even if the Marxes didn't intend any deeper significance, one still exists that its longevity has created. And of course, it's impossible to tell when Groucho is being sarcastic and when he isn't. But that he communicated with T.
I suspect that his outspoken opinion of Duck Soup simply changed over time. While the Brothers were still active, they were infamously embarrassed by the Paramount films—hard to believe it, but there was a time when the Thalberg collaborations were actually considered better. Perhaps the 'four Jews trying to get a laugh' comment was a dismissive one he made towards that era in general.
Towards the end of his lifetime, critics reexamined the Paramounts and embraced them, and perhaps this gave Groucho incentive to finally admit that the film indeed was an intentional, biting satire. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Duck Soup Theatrical release poster. Groucho Marx as Rufus T. Firefly who, at Mrs.
Archived from the original on Silver Screen Collection " ". University of Alaska Southeast. Archived October 12, , at the Wayback Machine. The Mark Brothers Encyclopedia. The Boys from Termite Terrace. A Camera Three Documentary , Jones, a fan of the Marx Brothers, laughed, "We would steal from almost any source! A Celebration of the Marx Brothers ". Read the Night in Casablanca controversy and myth.