SC - Re: kosher/halaal animals, paraffin/kerosene

[Ian van Tets]

Ok, I looked it up this time.  "Chewing the cud" only happens in animals 
with more than one stomach and has to do with how animals digest 
cellulose.  Animals that chew their cud are called ruminants, such as 
goats.  Other animals such as rabbits do not need to chew their cud and 
cannot because they only have one stomach.
Also rabbits are not in the rodent family.  They are not even in the 
same order (Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species).  
Rodents are in the order Rodentia and Rabbits are in the order 
Lagomorpha. 
info gotten from  Fourth Edition Biology by Raven & Johnson (college 
biology text)

Estria


>From: Seton1355 at aol.com
>Reply-To: sca-cooks at Ansteorra.ORG
>To: sca-cooks at Ansteorra.ORG
>Subject: Re: SC - Kosher Food Laws
>Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 20:37:09 EST
>
>OK, if you say so my lord,  but that is not chewing their cud whis is 
what is
>needed to be considered kosher,
>PHillipa
>
>> I can't speak for goats but rabbits do consume all their food a 
second time.
>>  They eat it the first time and them expell it as excrement and then 
turn
>>  around and re-eat it. If you raise rabbits and provide only a 
screened 
>> bottom
>>  for them to run around on, their excrement will fall through the 
bottom and
>>  eventually they will die of malnutrition.
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