>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.

Some muslim imams says shellfish can't eat. But some says can eat. I believe in who says you can... ;) I like fried mulses so much... It delicious...

We don't eat pig too. We don't know why it's forbidden. We can only guess: a very fat meat and pig tenia.

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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?

Our rules a bit flexible on this issue. We can eat any meat slitting by a muslim-christian or jew. I know jews don't eat all meat of a cow, but we eat.