ANT 260 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Hanukkah, Vegetarianism, Caffeine
5 Dec 2017
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Ant 260- lecture notes- lectures 17,18 food and belief: different religious groups eat differently. Judaism: two groups, achkenazi, sephardie, book: torah. In us has 3 different approaches: orthodox, conservative, reform: key difference in 3 groups is laws outlined in the torah and how they"re interpreted, kashrut: jewish dietary laws set down in the torah and explained in the talmud. All orthodox and some conservative, but not really reform: kosher= fit , permitted foods under kashrut, glatt kosher, any mammal with a cloven hooves (cows, sheep, goat. 2 toes) and chews cud may be eaten and can drink its milk: fish. Can eat if it has fins and scales: no reptiles, insects, amphibians. For kosher packaging of fruits vegetables etc it gets rinsed twice to make sure insects and eggs are gone: cannot eat the produce of non-kosher things. Slits animal"s neck to cut jugular and trachea.
