>What? you can have reverence for a cow or sheep, but not for a pig? What's unreverential about eating shellfish? I don't understand. Now it seems like there wasn't even a practical reason for avoiding certain foods.
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>And then the kosher killing. Is that like hal-al, slitting the throat and letting the animal bleed to death? Reverence?
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>What's kosher all about anyway?
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>Forgive my gentile ignorance.

I guess you don't know how to use google.

http://www.jewfaq.org/kashrut.htm